Spring Boot Intro (SpringBoot #01)

Spring boot is a project of Spring. Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". Spring boot application needs minimal spring configurations. Spring boot is a spring module that provides rapid application (RAD) development features of spring framework. I have following mentioned some of Spring boot features according to the Spring boot official documentation.

Features set of Spring boot:

• Create stand-alone spring applications
• Embed Tomcat, Jetty or Undertow directly (no need to deploy WAR files)
• Provide opinionated 'starter' dependencies 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 

Spring boot= spring framework + embedded servers (tomcat,jetty) -  complex XML configurations

Spring boot is combination of Spring framework and Tomcat,jetty embedded servers. And also it removes complex xml configurations of Spring framework.

Benefits/Importance of Spring boot:

• Dependency injection approach is used in spring boot
• Powerful database transaction management capabilities
• It simplifies integration with other Java frameworks like JPA/Hibernate ORM, Struts, etc.
•  It reduces the development time
• It has embedded web servers (tomcat,jetty)
• Reduced XML configurations
• It offers a CLI tool for developing and testing the Spring Boot application.
•  It provides production-ready features such as metrics, health checks, and externalized configuration.
•  It provides opinionated 'starter' POMs to simplify our Maven configuration.
• It creates stand-alone Spring applications that can be started using Java -jar.

Prerequisites for Spring boot:

• Java 1.8
• Maven 3.0 <
• IDE (Spring tool suite -STS is recommended ) 

I will explain simply how to work with Spring boot in coming up next article series.
Happy Coding !

References:

•  Spring. 2020. Spring Boot. [ONLINE] Available at: https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot#overview.
•  www.javatpoint.com. 2020. Learn Spring Boot Tutorial - javatpoint. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.javatpoint.com/spring-boot-tutorial. .