# Get Started using the DynamoDB Enhanced Client API
<a name="ddb-en-client-getting-started"></a>

The following tutorial introduces you to fundamentals that you need to work with the DynamoDB Enhanced Client API.

## Add dependencies
<a name="ddb-en-client-gs-dep"></a>

To begin working with the DynamoDB Enhanced Client API in your project, add a dependency on the `dynamodb-enhanced` Maven artifact. This is shown in the following examples. 

------
#### [ Maven ]

```
<project>
  <dependencyManagement>
   <dependencies>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
        <artifactId>bom</artifactId>
        <version>{{<VERSION>}}</version>
        <type>pom</type>
        <scope>import</scope>
      </dependency>
   </dependencies>
  </dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
      <artifactId>dynamodb-enhanced</artifactId>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  ...
</project>
```

Perform a search of the Maven central repository for the [latest version](https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/software.amazon.awssdk/bom) and replace {{<VERSION>}} with this value.

------
#### [ Gradle ]

```
repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
    implementation(platform("software.amazon.awssdk:bom:{{<VERSION>}}"))
    implementation("software.amazon.awssdk:dynamodb-enhanced")
    ...
}
```

Perform a search of the Maven central repository for the [latest version](https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/software.amazon.awssdk/bom) and replace {{<VERSION>}} with this value.

------

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS SDK for Java. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query sdk-for-java` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).