After you generate a starter project, these instructions will help you with what to do next.

The Open Liberty starter gives you a simple, quick way to get the necessary files to start building
an application on Open Liberty. There is no need to search how to find out what to add to your 
Maven build files. A simple RestApplication.java file is generated for you to start 
creating a REST based application. A server.xml configuration file is provided with the necessary 
features for the MicroProfile and Jakarta EE versions that you previously selected.

If you plan on developing and/or deploying your app in a containerized environment, the included 
Dockerfile will make it easier to create your application image on top of the Open Liberty Docker 
image.

1) Once you download the starter project, unpackage the .zip file on your machine.
2) Open a command line session, navigate to the installation directory, and run `./mvnw liberty:dev` (Linux/Mac) or `mvnw liberty:dev` (Windows). 
   This will install all required dependencies and start the default server. When complete, you will
   see the necessary features installed and the message "server is ready to run a smarter planet."

For information on developing your application in dev mode using Maven, see the 
dev mode documentation (https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/development-mode.html).

For further help on getting started actually developing your application, see some of our 
MicroProfile guides (https://openliberty.io/guides/?search=microprofile&key=tag) and Jakarta EE 
guides (https://openliberty.io/guides/?search=jakarta%20ee&key=tag).

If you have problems building the starter project, make sure the Java SE version on your 
machine matches the Java SE version you picked from the Open Liberty starter on the downloads 
page (https://openliberty.io/downloads/). You can test this with the command `java -version`.

Open Liberty performs at its best when running using Open J9 which can be obtained via IBM Semeru 
(https://developer.ibm.com/languages/java/semeru-runtimes/downloads/). For a full list of supported 
Java SE versions and where to obtain them, reference the Java SE support page 
(https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/java-se.html).

If you find any issues with the starter project or have recommendations to improve it, open an 
issue in the starter GitHub repo (https://github.com/OpenLiberty/start.openliberty.io).