Pro Spring Boot 3: An Authoritative Guide with Best Practices

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F. GutierrezPro Spring Boot 3https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9294-5_14

14. Extending Spring Boot

Felipe Gutierrez¹  

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In this chapter, we will review how we can extend Spring Boot by creating a custom Spring Boot starter. We’ll discuss the benefits of a custom starter, review the annotations required to create a custom starter, identify the requirements of the custom starter that we’ll create, and survey the general rules for creating a custom starter. Then, we’ll create a custom starter for the My Retro App project. We’ll wrap up by using our custom starter. ...