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  This guide will walk you through the process of deploying a Spring Boot application on Railway ( click here for free registration) , a platform that offers free hosting for personal projects, without requiring a credit card. 1. Project Setup Create a Spring Boot Project: Use Spring Initializr ( https://start.spring.io/ ) to generate a new Spring Boot project. Select the following dependencies: Spring Web: This provides the core functionality for building web applications with Spring, including RESTful services. Spring Boot Starter Test: This dependency includes libraries for writing unit and integration tests for your application. Choose your preferred build system (Maven or Gradle). Create a Simple Controller: Create a new Java class annotated with @RestController . This annotation signifies that this class will handle HTTP requests and produce responses in a format suitable for direct consumption by clients, such as JSON or XML . Define a method annotated wit...