Building an Application with Spring Boot

Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can “just run”.

If you want to create your own Spring Boot-based project, visit Spring Initializr, fill in your project details, pick your options, and you can download either a Maven build file, or a bundled up project as a zip file.

What you would build
You’ll build a simple web application with Spring Boot and add some useful services to it.

What you would need

1. A favorite text editor or IDE
2. JDK 1.8 or later
3. Gradle 4+ or Maven 3.2+

You can also import the code straight into your IDE:

1. Eclipse
2. Spring Tool Suite (STS)
3. IntelliJ IDEA

Spring Boot Features

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