In this chapter, we installed the tools that are needed for backend development with Spring Boot. For Java development, we used Eclipse IDE, that is a widely used programming IDE. We created a new Spring Boot project by using the Spring Initializr page. After creating the project, it was imported to Eclipse and, finally, executed. We also covered how to solve common problems with Spring Boot and how to find important error and log messages. Finally, we installed a MariaDB database, that we are going to use in the next chapter.