The main goal of Spring Boot Framework is to reduce Development, Unit Test and Integration Test time and to ease the development of Production ready web applications very easily compared to existing Spring Framework, which really takes more time. Here minus means we don’t need to write any XML Configuration and few Annotations only. That means Spring Boot is nothing but existing Spring Framework + Some Embedded HTTP Servers (Tomcat/Jetty etc.) – XML or Annotations Configurations. In Simple Terminology, What Spring Boot means

It provides lots of plugins to work with embedded and in-memory Databases very easily.

It provides lots of plugins to develop and test Spring Boot Applications very easily using Build Tools like Maven and Gradle.

It provides CLI (Command Line Interface) tool to develop and test Spring Boot(Java or Groovy) Applications from command prompt very easily and quickly.

to develop and test our web applications very easily.

It provides Embedded HTTP servers like Tomcat, Jetty etc.

It follows “Opinionated Defaults Configuration” Approach to reduce Developer effort.

It is very easy to integrate Spring Boot Application with its Spring Ecosystem like Spring JDBC, Spring ORM, Spring Data, Spring Security etc.

It avoids writing lots of boilerplate Code, Annotations and XML Configuration.

It reduces lots of development time and increases productivity.

It is very easy to develop Spring Based applications with Java or Groovy.

We will explain this in detail with some examples in coming posts.

To reduce Development, Unit Test and Integration Test time by providing some defaults.ĭon’t worry about what is “Opinionated Defaults Configuration” Approach at this stage.

To ease the Java-based applications Development, Unit Test and Integration Test Process.

It is used to solve same problems like Spring Framework. It is not used for solving any new problems. Spring Boot Framework is not implemented from the scratch by The Spring Team, rather than implemented on top of existing Spring Framework (Spring IO Platform).

It follows “Opinionated Defaults Configuration” Approach to avoid lot of boilerplate code and configuration to improve Development, Unit Test and Integration Test Process. It provides defaults for code and annotation configuration to quick start new Spring projects within no time. Spring Boot is a Framework from “The Spring Team” to ease the bootstrapping and development of new Spring Applications.

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