Spring Boot
Spring Boot is an open-source framework in the Spring ecosystem for building stand-alone, production-ready applications with convention-based configuration and auto-configuration.
Spring in Action, Sixth Edition
A Spring application built with Spring Boot, typically packaged with the components needed to run as a self-contained application.
- How it is used
- Simplifies building and running Spring applications by managing dependencies and configuring components automatically.
- How deep it goes
- Works through project generation, bootstrap code, startup, and autoconfiguration effects; stops short of detailing autoconfiguration internals.
- Examples
- Uses a generated Maven web application, its bootstrap class, an application-context test, and a home page served on localhost.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch with Spring Initializr, run it locally, and choose a JAR, WAR, or container image for deployment.
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Kafka Streams in Action, Second Edition
Spring Boot is a Spring-based framework that simplifies application development through auto-configuration, convention-based defaults, and embedded application services.
- How it is used
- Simplifies Kafka and Kafka Streams application setup while providing lifecycle defaults and an optional web server.
- How deep it goes
- Demonstrates configuration classes, property injection, topic beans, startup, and alternative Kafka Streams lifecycle wiring.
- Examples
- Uses a loan-processing workflow with input, approval, rejection, quality-assurance, and Kafka Streams aggregation topics.
- What you can do after
- Build Kafka applications with reduced configuration and choose between managed or explicitly controlled Kafka Streams lifecycles.
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Java Persistence with Spring Data and Hibernate epub
Spring Boot is a framework for building Spring applications with convention-based configuration, auto-configuration, and deployable application support.
- How it is used
- Provides a configurable application shell for Spring Data JPA, JDBC, REST, and persistence-testing projects.
- How deep it goes
- Works through generated files, starters, datasource properties, SQL initialization, and startup code; does not explain Spring Boot internals.
- Examples
- Uses generated persistence projects, application.properties settings, a schema.sql script, an ApplicationRunner, and a REST GET request.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch with Spring Initializr, then configure a MySQL-backed Spring Data application and its startup behavior.
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Automating API Delivery
Spring Boot is a Java framework for building stand-alone, production-oriented applications with convention-based configuration and embedded infrastructure.
- How it is used
- Generates and implements Java API services from OpenAPI definitions, using Spring Boot as the target application framework.
- How deep it goes
- Traces generated packages, annotations, controller implementation, exception handling, and curl verification without detailing Spring Boot internals.
- Examples
- Demonstrates a product-catalog service, generated ProductsApi components, a product lookup response, and structured invalid-UUID errors.
- What you can do after
- Build it from an OpenAPI definition, implement generated controllers, handle errors centrally, and verify responses with curl.
Related concepts
- serverconfigures · A server is a computer system or software process that receives requests from clients or other systems and provides resources, data, or services in response.
- convention over configurationuses · Convention over configuration is a software design approach in which established conventions provide defaults, requiring explicit configuration only for deviations.
- Spring Boot autoconfigurationuses · Spring Boot autoconfiguration is the conditional automatic selection and configuration of application components based on dependencies, properties, environment, and application context.
- Spring Initializrproduced by · Spring Initializr is a service and project-generation tool that creates configured Spring application projects from selected metadata, dependencies, and framework versions.
- dependency injectionuses · Dependency injection is a software design technique in which a component receives its dependencies from outside rather than creating or locating them internally.
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