1 Booting Spring Boot

This chapter covers

  • Introducing Spring Boot
  • Project structure and various elements of a generated project
  • Creating an executable JAR file and the generated JAR structure
  • An overview of Spring Boot starter, autoconfiguration, failure analyzer, and actuator
  • Introducing Spring Boot developer tools to increase developer productivity

Welcome to Spring Boot—the most popular Java framework out there! It has revolutionized the way Spring applications or, more specifically, Java applications are developed these days. Spring Boot is an open source extension of the Spring Framework designed to simplify the Spring application development. The popularity of Spring Boot is mostly attributed to its ability to create standalone, production-ready, ...

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