Installation and Starting Up

Installing and configuring Spring Roo is easy. It is a self contained Java Application distributed in a compressed ZIP format.

Follow the steps:

• Download the artefact from here
• Unzip to your favourite location, say c:\springroo (or /apps/springroo on unix or Mac).
• Set the environment variables: PATH to %ROO_HOME%\bin (ROO_HOME is your installation directory, in my case: c:\springroo)

Once the steps have been followed, go to a command prompt and issue the following cmd 'roo' at the command prompt as below:

c:\>roo

____  ____  ____
   / __ \/ __ \/ __ \
  / /_/ / / / / / / /
 / _, _/ /_/ / /_/ /
/_/ |_|\____/\____/    1.0.1.RELEASE [rev 601]

Welcome to Spring Roo. For assistance press TAB or type "hint" then hit ENTER.
roo>

That's it, you are all equipped with Roo!