1. Introduction to Spring Boot

What is Springboot

Spring Boot is an open source project released by the spring community, designed to help developers build projects quickly and easily. Most springboot projects require only a few configuration files.

Springboot characteristics

• Create a separate spring project
• Built-in Tomcat and jetty containers
• Provides a starter Poms to simplify MAVEN configuration
• Provides a wide range of common non-functional features in large projects such as safety, metrics, health detection, external configuration, etc.
• No code generation and XML configuration files at all

Springboot Operating Environment

The latest spring boot version can run in a java6+ environment, but Spring's official recommendation is to use JAVA8.

Servlet container

Name	Servlet Version	Java Version
Tomcat 8	3.1	Java 7+
Tomcat 7	3.0	Java 6+
Jetty 9	3.1	Java 7+
Jetty 8	3.0	Java 6+
Undertow 1.1	3.1	Java 7+

What applications are supported by Springboot

Use Springboot to quickly create common Java projects and Web projects, as well as other projects.

Spring Boot Application Starters

Name	Description
spring-boot-starter	The core Spring Boot starter, including auto-configuration support, logging and YAML.
spring-boot-starter-actuator	Production ready features to help you monitor and manage your application.
spring-boot-starter-amqp	Support for the ' Advanced Message Queuing Protocol ' via Spring-rabbit.
spring-boot-starter-aop	Support for aspect-oriented programming including SPRING-AOP and AspectJ.
spring-boot-starter-artemis	Support for "Java Message Service API" via Apache Artemis.
spring-boot-starter-batch	Support for "Spring Batch" including HSQLDB database.
spring-boot-starter-cache	Support for Spring ' s Cache abstraction.
spring-boot-starter-cloud-connectors	Support for ' Spring Cloud Connectors ' which simplifies connecting to services in cloud platforms like Cloud Foundry and He Roku.
spring-boot-starter-data-elasticsearch	Support for the Elasticsearch search and analytics engine including Spring-data-elasticsearch.
spring-boot-starter-data-gemfire	Support for the GemFire distributed data store including Spring-data-gemfire.
spring-boot-starter-data-jpa	Support for the "Java persistence API" including SPRING-DATA-JPA, Spring-orm and Hibernate.
spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb	Support for the MongoDB NoSQL Database, including Spring-data-mongodb.
spring-boot-starter-data-redis	Support for the REDIS Key-value data store, including Spring-data-redis.
spring-boot-starter-data-rest	Support for exposing Spring Data repositories over REST via SPRING-DATA-REST-WEBMVC.
spring-boot-starter-data-solr	Support for the Apache SOLR search platform, including SPRING-DATA-SOLR.
spring-boot-starter-freemarker	Support for the Freemarker templating engine.
spring-boot-starter-groovy-templates	Support for the Groovy templating engine.
spring-boot-starter-hateoas	Support for hateoas-based RESTful services via Spring-hateoas.
spring-boot-starter-hornetq	Support for "Java Message Service API" via HornetQ.
spring-boot-starter-integration	Support for common spring-integration modules.
spring-boot-starter-jdbc	Support for JDBC databases.
spring-boot-starter-jersey	Support for the Jersey RESTful Web Services framework.
spring-boot-starter-jta-atomikos	Support for JTA distributed transactions via Atomikos.
spring-boot-starter-jta-bitronix	Support for JTA distributed transactions via Bitronix.
spring-boot-starter-mail	Support for Javax.mail.
spring-boot-starter-mobile	Support for Spring-mobile.
spring-boot-starter-mustache	Support for the mustache templating engine.
spring-boot-starter-security	Support for Spring-security.
spring-boot-starter-social-facebook	Support for Spring-social-facebook.
spring-boot-starter-social-linkedin	Support for Spring-social-linkedin.
spring-boot-starter-social-twitter	Support for Spring-social-twitter.
spring-boot-starter-test	Support for common test dependencies, including JUnit, Hamcrest and Mockito along with the Spring-testmodule.
spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf	The Thymeleaf templating engine, including integration with Spring.
spring-boot-starter-velocity	Support for the Velocity templating engine.
spring-boot-starter-web	Support for Full-stack Web development, including Tomcat and SPRING-WEBMVC.
spring-boot-starter-websocket	Support for WebSocket development.
spring-boot-starter-ws	Support for Spring Web Services.

1. Introduction to Spring Boot