Introduction to Spring Boot
Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run".
Introduction to Spring Boot
Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run".
We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need minimal Spring configuration.
If you’re looking for information about a specific version, or instructions about how to upgrade from an earlier release, check out the project release notes section on our wiki.
Features
Create stand-alone Spring applications
Embed Tomcat, Jetty or Undertow directly (no need to deploy WAR files)
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
Getting Started
Super quick — try the Quickstart Guide.
More general — try Building an Application with Spring Boot
More specific — try Building a RESTful Web Service.
Or search through all our guides on the Guides homepage.
Talks and videos
You can also join the Spring Boot community on Gitter!
The Spring Framework provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform.
A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.