Dominant and authentic techs in Spring and Java EE in the past before introducing Spring Boot
- spring-web-mvc,
- spring-transactions-management, spring-jms,
- spring-data-jpa
Another version of Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java Developers will be needed unlike the version you had started with it in the foundation level.
It gives you more support in the enterprise environment. However in spring-boot, you'll not need such level of an IDE, just the basic one as in the foundation level will be enough.
Beside Maven as a dependency management tool 🔧 🔨 🗜 🧰