Spring Boot Introduction

Spring Boot modules provide RAD feature to spring framework.

Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-ready Spring based Applications that you can "just run".

It take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.

Advantage of Spring Boot

• Create stand-alone Spring applications(default jar file) that can be started using java -jar
• Embed Tomcat, Jetty or Undertow directly. You don't need to deploy WAR files.
• Provide opinionated 'starter' dependencies in 'pom.xml' file to simplify your build configuration.
• Automatically configure Spring and 3rd party libraries whenever possible.
• Provide production-ready features such as metrics, health checks and externalized configuration.
• Absolutely no code generation and no requirement for XML configuration.

Prerequisite of Spring Boot

To create a Spring boot application following are the prerequites of this tutorials.

• java 1.8+
• Latest version of Gradle or Maven
• Spring Boot 2
• Your favorite IDEA like STS, IntelliJ IDEA