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K. Siva Prasad Reddy, Beginning Spring Boot 2, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2931-6_2

2. Getting Started with Spring Boot

K. Siva Prasad Reddy

(1)Hyderabad, India

This chapter takes a more detailed look at Spring Boot and its features. Then the chapter looks at various options of creating a Spring Boot application, such as the Spring Initializr, Spring Tool Suite, Intellij IDEA, etc. Finally, the chapter explores the generated code and looks at how to run an application.

What Is Spring Boot?

Spring Boot is an opinionated framework that helps developers build Spring-based applications quickly and easily. The main goal of Spring Boot is to quickly create Spring-based applications without requiring developers to write ...

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