Learning Spring Boot

Running a Spring Boot application

So far, we have a bare bones project. There isn't much code. However, http://start.spring.io creates a single Application class; let's look at that first:

package learningspringboot;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;

@ComponentScan
@EnableAutoConfiguration
public class Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}

Let's break this down:

• @ComponentScan: This tells Spring to look for classes with @Component, @Configuration, @Repository, @Service, and @Controller and wire them into the app context as beans. By ...