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Felipe Gutierrez, Pro Spring Boot, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1431-2_3

3. Spring Boot Auto-Configuration, Features, and More

Felipe Gutierrez

(1)Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

This chapter talks about the Spring Boot features that involve configuration. First it shows you how Spring Boot works when it’s using the auto-configuration feature (in detail) when you add the @EnableAutoConfiguration annotation. Then the chapter shows you some of Spring Boot’s extra features, such as externalizing your configuration properties, its enable and disable features, and more.

Auto-Configuration

The previous chapter explained that auto-configuration is one of the important features in Spring Boot because it will try to do its best to configure your ...

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