What is Spring Boot
Spring boot build on top of the Spring framework. There is
no requirement on having lot of configurations when you use Spring Boot. Its
use It uses convention over configuration software design paradigm.
Therefore, it reduces lot of effort of developers.
What you need in your computer
- Java
1.8
- Maven
3.0+
- Spring
Framework 5.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT
- An
IDE (Spring Tool Suite) is recommended.
Why you choose spring Boot as your development framework.
- Spring Boot is a framework which provide default configurations and annotation that you can create project simply.
- Reduce development time and increase the productivity.
- Very easy to integrate with Spring JDBC, Spring ORM, Spring Data, Spring Security etc.
- It provides Embedded HTTP servers like Tomcat, Jetty etc. to develop and test our web applications very easily.
- Its provide lot of plugins to implement various features.
Spring Boot Features
- Web
Development
We can easily create web html application with
embed servers like tomcat and jetty. We can use the spring-boot-starter-web module
to start and run the application quickly.
- SpringApplication
It is a class which help to bootstrap the spring applications
public static void main(String[] args)
{
SpringApplication.run(ClassName.class, args);
}- Application
events and listeners
Spring
Boot uses events to handle the variety of tasks. It allows us to create
factories file that is used to add listeners
- Admin
features
By using spring.application.admin.enabled property you can enable admin features.
- Externalized
Configuration
The application uses YAML files to externalize
configuration. With this feature we can support our app to run in multiple
different environments.
- Properties
Files
Springboot user application property file where we
can define server port and any other properties that you can change externally
- YAML
Support
It is an alternative for the property file and spring
boot application support it by default.
- Logging
It is providing common logging for all the internal
login.
- Security
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