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Why do you need Spring Boot

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  • Eases Development of Spring Based Applications
  • Eases Bootstrapping of Spring Based Applications
  • Eases Development, Unit Testing & Integration Test Process.
  • Provides opinionated STARTERS which simplify build & configuration
  • Uses Code by Convention to reduce a lot of boilerplate code and Configurations.

 For example, to create a web application using Spring, you will need the following maven DEPENDENCIES:

<dependency>      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>     <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>     <version>xxx</version> </dependency> <dependency>     <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>     <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>     <version>xxx</version> </dependency>

While with Spring boot, it reduces to :

  <dependency>     <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>     <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>     <version>SPRING_BOOT_VERSION_xxx</version> </dependency>

Not only spring Dependencies, but you also get free Embedded Tomcat Servlet CONTAINER with this, you can override this with Jetty or Undertow.

Some of the commonly used are:

  • Spring-boot-starter-web
  • Spring-boot-starter-test
  • Spring-boot-starter-security
  • Spring-boot-starter-data-jpa
  • Spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf
  • spring-boot-starter-actuator
    • Provides default for Configuration ( Code & Annotations)
    • Reduces Development Time 
    • Increases Productivity
    • Eases integration with other Spring Components like Spring JDBC, Spring ORM, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Cloud etc
    • Eases testing of Java/Groovy applications from the command line by Providing Command-line Interface
    • Eases the creation of STANDALONE or Production-ready Applications
    • Provide inbuilt non-functional features ( Security, Embedded Servers, metrics, health checks, externalized configurations) 
    • Eases building of MICROSERVICES based Applications because of its easy integration with spring web, spring cloud etc
    • Eradicates XML configuration or keep it to a minimum.


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