Spring Boot Documentation

Spring Boot Documentation

Things to know

  • Spring Initializr: Fast way to pull in dependencies you need for an application and does most of the work for you.

    • Example dependencies:
    • Spring Web:
    • Thymeleaf
    • Spring Boot DevTools

  • Maven comes with a pom.xml file

  • Gradle comes with the build.gradle file

  • Language is chosen with an ‘id’ (i.e. “id 'java'”) (done under plugins)

  • Spring framework & dependency management are also under plugins.

Terms (of options)

  • Group: Project Coordinates; id of the project’s group; Infers Root package name;
  • Artifact: Project Coordinates; id of the Artifact; Infers name of project;
  • Name: Display Name of Project; Determines name of Spring Boot Application;
  • Description: Description of project;
  • Package name: Root package of the project; Default is [Group]() attribute;
  • Packaging: Project Packaging; Either Java Archive (JAR) or Web Application Archive (WAR);
  • Java Version: Which version of Java to use;
  • Language: Which programming language to use;

Web Controllers

HTTP(S) requests are handled by a controller.