Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How it works...

Congratulations! You have now built your very own Spring Boot autoconfiguration starter.

First, let's quickly walk through the changes that we made to our Gradle build configuration and then we will examine the starter setup in detail.

As the Spring Boot starter is a separate, independent artifact, just adding more classes to our existing project source tree would not really demonstrate much. To make this separate artifact, we have a couple of choices: making a separate Gradle configuration in our existing project, or creating a completely separate project altogether. The most ideal solution, however, was to just convert our build to Gradle Multi-Project Build by adding a nested project directory and subproject dependency ...