What Exactly Is Spring Boot?

The term “microservices framework” is often used when talking about Spring Boot. This is only partially true, because Spring Boot is suitable for small services as well as for monolithic applications. These services or applications can be pure web APIs or web applications, command line programs or orchestrating applications.

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Table of Contents

  • What exactly is Spring Boot?
  • Are there alternatives?
  • The minimum Java version and other dependencies
    Java 17 / Jakarta EE 9+
  • SpringBootApplication
  • Version management and dependency management
    Maven / Gradle
  • What is a starter?
  • Manual (specific) configuration

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