What is Spring Boot?
Learn about the needs and features of Spring Boot with a focus on starter projects.
Features of Spring Boot
Spring boot enables robust creation of applications. It provides features like servers, metrics, health checks, etc. Spring Boot allows for integration with many different servers, but by itself, it is neither an application server nor a web server. Auto configuration is a great feature of Spring Boot whereby it provides all the required dependencies to start a particular project. For example, starter web automatically configures everything needed for a web application. Similarly, starter JPA automatically configures basic JPA along with Hibernate. The main features of Spring Boot are shown below: