Excellent! Thank you! And, to be fair, I've also since discovered https://start.spring.io https://start.spring.io. It's worth pointing out that both of these

Excellent! Thank you! And, to be fair, I've also since discovered https://start.spring.io https://start.spring.io. It's worth pointing out that both of these sites exist specifically to address my frustration in just getting started with a Java web stack, but it's taken me a couple of weeks to discover them.