Spring Boot

Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone programm, production-grade Spring based Applications that we can "just run".

Spring Boot is an open source Java-based framework used to create a micro Service. It is developed by Pivotal Team.

Spring Boot Features

• Can create stand-alone Spring applications
• Embed Tomcat, Jetty or Undertow directly (no need to deploy WAR files), just start spring boot from boot dashboard
• Provide opinionated 'starter' dependencies to simplify your build configuration
• Automatically configure Spring and 3rd party libraries whenever possible
• Provide production-ready features such as metrics, health checks, and externalized configuration
• Absolutely no code generation and no requirement for XML configuration