Starters are a set of convenient dependency descriptors that you can include in your APPLICATION. The starters contain a lot of the dependencies that you NEED to get a project up and running quickly and with a consistent, supported set of managed transitive dependencies.

The starter POMs are convenient dependency descriptors that can be added to your application’s MAVEN. In simple words, if you are developing a project that USES Spring Batch for batch processing, you just have to include spring-boot-starter-batch that will import all the required dependencies for the Spring Batch application. This reduces the BURDEN of searching and configuring all the dependencies required for a framework.

Starters are a set of convenient dependency descriptors that you can include in your application. The starters contain a lot of the dependencies that you need to get a project up and running quickly and with a consistent, supported set of managed transitive dependencies.

The starter POMs are convenient dependency descriptors that can be added to your application’s Maven. In simple words, if you are developing a project that uses Spring Batch for batch processing, you just have to include spring-boot-starter-batch that will import all the required dependencies for the Spring Batch application. This reduces the burden of searching and configuring all the dependencies required for a framework.