Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

Starters

Spring Boot starters are sets of convenient dependency descriptors, and they only contain a dependency descriptor file, which is the pom.xml file. By convention, all official starters follow the naming pattern—spring-boot-starter-*, where * is a particular technology, for example, jdbc, and web. Spring Boot also has a core starter, which is spring-boot-starter. All other starters depend on this starter, mostly for the autoconfiguration support it provides. The core starter is also a dependency descriptor, and its autoconfiguration ability comes from its spring-boot-autoconfigure dependency. We will discuss autoconfiguration soon.

Let's take a close look at the spring-boot-starter-jdbc starter. In this starter's pom.xml file, listed ...