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First you set up a basic build script. You can use any build system you like when building apps with Spring, but the code you need to work with http://gradle.org[Gradle] and https://maven.apache.org[Maven] is included here. If you're not familiar with either, refer to link:/guides/gs/gradle[Building Java Projects with Gradle] or link:/guides/gs/maven[Building Java Projects with Maven].