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The real essence of why developers choose Spring Boot 2.0 in building applications is the principle of auto-configuration. Unlike in ground-up Spring MVC 5 development, choosing the compatible Maven artifacts to the existing Spring API version is not a problem anymore because of the presence of the parent starter POM. The only challenge is just the choosing of the external support dependencies not included in the parent starter, since the version numbers are of critical importance. For clarification, Spring Boot 2.0 is not a framework and will not replace Spring 5 since its mandate is to generate Spring 5 applications.
There is a list of starters that can be inherited from the Maven repository of Spring Boot 2.0.0.M2 and each ...
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