How can I open this Spring project in Eclipse?

Question

Silly question, cant seem to get it to work. https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-service/ mentions a Java project - available here on GIT - https://github.com/spring-guides/gs-rest-service.git and here directly - https://github.com/spring-guides/gs-rest-service/archive/master.zip .

When I try to import the zip, it fails. I tried to unzip and import selecting the root folder at source and it won't work.

How can I open this project in Eclipse and make my own changes?

Thanks.

Solution

Ensure that you are selecting "Existing Maven Project"

File > Import > Maven > Existing Maven Project Point to the inflated directory and choose the pom.xmls

Comments

[Simon Kiely]

Perfect, thank you, never worked with a MVN project before and didnt realise it had it's own option. Much appreciated. Will accept this in 3 minutes when it is possible to. Thanks again.