I’ll start with a phrase that I wrote in another book: Spring Boot is a new chapter in creating enterprise-ready applications with the Spring Framework.
Spring Boot does not replace the Spring Framework; you can see it as a new way to create awesome applications with the framework used by the Java community.
In this chapter, I show you what Spring Boot is and how it works behind the scenes. You will also see the power of Spring Boot with a small example. So why do we need to look at Spring Boot? First of all, all the technologies that we are going to use, such as Spring Integration, Spring AMQP, ...
