IntelliJ IDEA CE+start.spring.io instead of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate?
Greetings, friends. Noob question - as the title indicates. Our company is moving towards project conversions from an SOA tool to Java Spring and while it's a very long term project, I'd like to get started with some practice at home with IntelliJ IDEA. I see Community Edition doesn't do Spring out of the box - but can I use start.spring.io along with IDEA CE and effectively get the same functionality as Ultimate? I get that there's probably a lot more you get with Ultimate but I'm not getting compensated for a license ($149 right now, soon to be $169) so I thought I'd get CE but I wanna do Spring. Apologies in advance if I've completely mucked things up in my head. Set me straight and THANKS! official website
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IntelliJ IDEA Community doesn't provide Spring Boot support or application servers support, see https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_matrix.html .
You can still use it for Spring Boot applications, but many features will not work and you will have to deploy/run your code using Maven or Gradle.
In order to run Spring application in IntelliJ CE you can use the Application run/debug configuration or Maven/Gradle (like you would do in the command line, outside of any IDE).