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Dependency Management

Dependency Management

Let’s learn about the set of basic dependencies required to start a Spring Boot project.

We'll cover the following...

Gradle build

Let’s look at the build.gradle file.

It contains dependencies such as spring-boot-starter-web, spring-boot-starter-data-jpa, and H2 that we’ve added to our Spring Boot application along with Java and Spring Boot plugins.

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plugins {
    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.6.2'
    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.11.RELEASE'
    id 'java'
}
group = 'io.educative'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = '1.8'
repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web'
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa'
    runtimeOnly 'com.h2database:h2'
    testImplementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test'
}
test {
    useJUnitPlatform()
}

Spring project dependencies

The most convenient way to build a Spring Boot project is ...