Thanks.
Have you seen this:
http://start.spring.io/
With this you can quickly click together a Spring Boot project with
Maven or Gradle, with the dependencies that you select already in the Maven or Gradle build file. Very quick and easy to get started with a Spring Boot project.
IntelliJ even has built-in support for this, if you do File / New / Project you can choose Spring Initializr, and you get a wizard where you can select the same things as on Spring's start website.