Spring Boot Documentation
Spring Boot Documentation
What is Spring Boot?
Spring Boot is the “Spring framework” application that is coupled with “Bootstrap”. Allowing the user to Bootstrap the Spring Application.
Official definition: “Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can ‘just run’.”
Key Take Aways…
- Creating Spring Based Applications (from Spring Boot).
- Stand-Alone (Runs on its own).
- Production grade (deployable to prod).
- ‘just runnable’.
- Easy way to get things working!
What is Spring
- 2006 definition:
- Up-to-date definition:
- Application Framework (“Lets you build Enterprise Java Applications”)
- Enterprise Java Applications(EJA) have many similarities
- Spring provides a template/framework to build those EJA
- Programming and Configuration Model
- Infrastructure Support
Some Problems with Spring
- It’s a HUGE framework
- So many ways to build EJAs; Spring has tried to support it all. (How to get started…?)
- Multiple Setup Steps
- Multiple Configuration Steps
- Multiple Build and Deploy Steps (lots of capability and flexibility, so… no main pathways are set.)
Enter Spring Boot
- Opinionated (start “here”, then move on if needed)
- Convention Over Configuration
- Stand Alone Application (SAA; Not Side, Angle, Angle lol)
- Production Ready!
Tools Used:
- Spring Tool Suite(STS) (looks like eclipse).
- At least Java 8 SDK.