This is beginners to expert Spring Boot tutorial. We have used the latest release of Spring Boot 2+ in all examples. This tutorial gives you all the possible Spring boot features that are required to build a Spring-based enterprise J2EE web applications or RESTful APIs. Spring Boot uses a completely new development model to make Java Development very easy by avoiding some tedious development steps and boilerplate code and configuration.
Spring Boot is a brand new framework from the team at Pivotal, designed to simplify the bootstrapping and development of a new Spring application. The framework takes an opinionated approach to configuration, freeing developers from the need to define a boilerplate configuration. It provides defaults for code and annotation configuration to quick start new Spring projects within no time.
Spring Boot 2.0 requires Java 8 or later. Java 6 and 7 are no longer supported. It also requires Spring Framework 5.0
- 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 2 Logging SLF4j Logback and LOG4j2 Example
>> Spring Boot 2 + Jersey REST + JPA + Hibernate 5 CRUD REST APIs Example
>> Spring Boot 2 + Jersey REST + JPA + Hibernate 5 CRUD REST APIs Example
>> Spring Boot Java Based Configuration Example
>> Spring Boot XML Configuration Example
>> Migrating from Spring to Spring Boot
>> Spring Boot XML Configuration Example
>> Migrating from Spring to Spring Boot
After reading above all Spring Boot articles, we can summarize the advantages of Spring boot as follows.
- It is very easy to develop Spring Based applications with Java.
- It reduces lots of development time and increases productivity.
- It avoids writing lots of boilerplate Code, Annotations and XML Configuration.
- It is very easy to integrate Spring Boot Application with its Spring Ecosystem like Spring JDBC, Spring ORM, Spring Data, Spring Security etc.
- It follows “Opinionated Defaults Configuration” Approach to reducing Developer effort
- It provides Embedded HTTP servers like Tomcat, Jetty etc. to develop and test our web applications very easily.
- It provides CLI (Command Line Interface) tool to develop and test Spring Boot(Java or Groovy) Applications from command prompt very easily and quickly.
- It provides lots of plugins to develop and test Spring Boot Applications very easily using Build Tools like Maven and Gradle
- It provides lots of plugins to work with embedded and in-memory Databases very easily.
- Why Spring Boot?
- How Spring Boot Autoconfiguration Magic Works
- Creating a Spring Boot Project With Eclipse and Maven
- How to debug Spring Boot application with Eclipse?
- Spring Boot Remove Whitelabel Error Page
- Difference between Spring MVC and Spring Boot
- What is the purpose of mvnw and mvnw.cmd files?
- How to add a filter class in Spring Boot?
- Java Spring Boot: How to map my app root (“/”) to index.html?
- JSON Java 8 LocalDateTime format in Spring Boot
- Spring Boot - Loading Initial Data
- Disable Logback in SpringBoot
- Programmatically shut down Spring Boot application
- Configure DataSource programmatically in Spring Boot
- Spring Boot: Customize Whitelabel Error Page
- Shutdown a Spring Boot Application
- Guide to Internationalization in Spring Boot
- Creating a Custom Starter with Spring Boot
- Spring Boot Security Auto-Configuration