Spring Boot features

Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.

Features:

1. Create stand-alone Spring applications
2. Embed Tomcat, Jetty or Undertow directly (no need to deploy WAR files)
3. Provide opinionated 'starter' POMs to simplify your Maven configuration
4. Automatically configure Spring whenever possible
5. Provide production-ready features such as metrics, health checks and externalized configuration
6. Absolutely no code generation and no requirement for XML configuration

 The following are Prerequisite of Spring Boot:

Java 1.8
Gradle 2.3+ or Maven 3.0+
Spring Framework 5.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT
An IDE (Spring Tool Suit) is recommended.

Installing Spring Boot:

Spring Boot can be used with “classic” Java development tools or installed as a command line tool. Regardless, you will need Java SDK v1.6 or higher. You should check your current Java installation before you begin:

$ java -version

You can use Spring Boot in the same way as any standard Java library. Simply include the appropriate spring-boot-*.jar files on your classpath. Spring Boot does not require any special tools integration, so you can use any IDE or text editor; and there is nothing special about a Spring Boot application, so you can run and debug as you would any other Java program.

Although you could just copy Spring Boot jars, we generally recommend that you use a build tool that supports dependency management (such as Maven or Gradle).