What are starter dependencies?

1.	What are starter dependencies?
Answer» Spring boot starter is a maven template that contains a collection of all the relevant transitive dependencies that are NEEDED to start a particular functionality. Like we NEED to IMPORT spring-boot-starter-web dependency for CREATING a web APPLICATION. <dependency><groupId> org.springframework.boot</groupId><artifactId> spring-boot-starter-web </artifactId></dependency>

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