Spring Boot Foundation

Learn about Spring Boot and its foundational features.

What is spring boot?

The definition of Spring Boot from the official website is as follows:

Spring Boot helps you to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring-based Applications that you can just run.

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Spring boot features

  • Creates stand-alone production-grade applications
  • Has embedded web servers (no need to deploy WAR files)
  • Provides ‘starter’ dependencies to simplify our build configuration
  • Provides production-ready features such as metrics and health checks
  • Allows auto configuration based on available JAR.

Three foundational features

Although Spring Boot provides many features, the three below are the most important. We have dedicated lessons for each.

  • Simplify Dependency Management
  • Simplify Deployment
  • Auto-configuration