Creating the Twitter Gathering project

We learned how to create Spring Boot projects with the amazing Spring Initializr. In this chapter, we will create a project in a different way, to show you an alternative way of creating a Spring Boot project.

Create the tweet-gathering folder, in any directory. We can use the following command:

mkdir tweet-gathering

Then, we can access the folder created previously and copy the pom.xml file located at GitHub: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Spring-5.0-By-Example/blob/master/Chapter05/tweet-gathering/pom.xml. 

Open the pom.xml on IDE.

There are some interesting dependencies here.  The jackson-module-kotlin helps to work with JSON in Kotlin language. Another interesting dependency is kotlin-stdlib, which provides the Kotlin standard libraries in our classpath.

In the plugin sections, the most important plugin is the kotlin-maven-plugin, which permits and configures the build for our Kotlin code.

In the next section, we will create a folder structure to start...