Chapter 5. Getting Groovy with the Spring Boot CLI

This chapter covers

  • Automatic dependencies and imports
  • Grabbing dependencies
  • Testing CLI-based applications

Some things go really well together. Peanut butter and jelly. Abbott and Costello. Thunder and lightning. Milk and cookies. On their own, these things are great. But when paired up, they’re even more awesome.

So far, we’ve seen a lot of great things that Spring Boot has to offer, including auto-configuration and starter dependencies. When paired up with the elegance of the Groovy language, the result can be greater than the sum of its parts.

In this chapter, we’re going to look at the Spring Boot CLI, a command-line tool that brings the power of Spring Boot and Groovy together ...

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