Spring Boot Foundation
Explore the foundation of Spring Boot to understand how it simplifies the creation and management of stand-alone, production-grade applications. Learn key features like embedded web servers, starter dependencies, and auto-configuration to efficiently build enterprise-level apps.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
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.
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