CHAPTER 19

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Spring Boot, Simplifying Everything

In Chapter 1, I showed a sneak peek of Spring Boot, a new technology by the Spring Framework team. In this chapter, you are going to translate your My Documents application into a Spring Boot application.

You can think of Spring Boot as a bootstrap engine that helps to create stand-alone and production-ready Spring applications with minimal effort—just code, and you don’t have to worry about any extra configuration. Spring Boot gives you the flexibility to use Java or even Groovy scripts to create applications without any configuration files. In previous chapters, you depended on XML configuration ...

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