Spring Boot is an open source Java-based framework used to create a Micro
Service. It is developed by Pivotal Team. It is easy to create a stand-alone
and production ready spring applications using Spring Boot. Spring Boot
contains a comprehensive infrastructure support for developing a micro
service and enables you to develop enterprise-ready applications that you
can just run.
Why to Learn Spring Boot?
Spring Boot provides a great range of features and benefits as given here−
Flexibility− Spring Boot provides multiple flexible ways to configure
Java Beans, XML configurations, and Database Transactions.
Powerful Batch Processing− Spring Boot provides a strong batch
mechanism.
Microservices Support− Micro Service is an architecture that allows
the developers to develop and deploy services independently. Each
service running has its own process and this achieves the lightweight
model to support business applications. Spring Boot provides
mechanism to develop and test microservices easily.
Auto Configuration− In Spring Boot, everything is auto configured;
no manual configurations are needed.
Annotation Based− In Spring Boot, we can create a running
application with very few annotations.
Eases dependency management− Spring Boot provides many
starters as per need like for web, for database etc to handle
dependencies effectively. A starter project provides dependency
management for corresponding functionalities.
Embedded Servlet Container− Spring Boot provides an embedded
servlet container(jetty) which can be changed as well. This container is
very useful while testing the application. We can test all functionalities
without deploying the spring boot application on any external
application container.
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Applications of Spring Boot
Following is the list of few of the great benefits of using Spring Boot
Framework −
POJO Based - Spring Boot enables developers to develop enterprise-
class applications using POJOs. The benefit of using only POJOs is that
you do not need an EJB container product such as an application server
but you have the option of using only a robust servlet container such
as Tomcat or some commercial product.
Modular - Spring Boot is modular by nature. Even though the number
of packages and classes are substantial, you have to worry only about
the ones you need and ignore the rest.
Integration with existing frameworks - Spring Boot does not
reinvent the wheel, instead it truly makes use of some of the existing
technologies like several ORM frameworks, logging frameworks, JEE,
Quartz and JDK timers, and other view technologies.
Testablity - Testing an application written with Spring Boot is very
easy because environment-dependent code is moved into this
framework. Furthermore, by using Java Bean style POJOs, it becomes
easier to use dependency injection for injecting test data.
Web MVC - Spring Boot's web framework is a well-designed web MVC
framework, which provides a great alternative to web frameworks such
as Struts or other over-engineered or less popular web frameworks.
Central Exception Handling - Spring Boot provides a convenient API
to translate technology-specific exceptions (thrown by JDBC, Hibernate,
or JDO, for example) into consistent, unchecked exceptions.
Lightweight - Lightweight IoC containers tend to be lightweight,
especially when compared to EJB containers, for example. This is
beneficial for developing and deploying applications on computers with
limited memory and CPU resources.
Transaction management - Spring Boot provides a consistent
transaction management interface that can scale down to a local
transaction (using a single database, for example) and scale up to
global transactions (using JTA, for example).
Goals of Spring Boot
Spring Boot is designed with the following goals−
Simpler Configuration− To avoid complex XML configuration in
Spring. With very few annotations, we can achieve the same
configurations.
Ease of Development− To develop a production ready Spring
applications in an easier way.
Reduce Development Efforts− To reduce the development time and
run the application independently.
Easy Deployment− Offer an easier way of getting started with the
application by providing an embedded application container to test the
application locally.
Audience
This tutorial is designed for Java developers to understand and develop
production-ready spring applications with minimum configurations. It
explores major features of Spring Boot such as Starters, Auto-configuration,
Beans, Actuator and more. By the end of this tutorial, you will gain an
intermediate level of expertise in Spring Boot.
Prerequisites
This tutorial is written for readers who have a prior experience of Java,
Spring, Maven, and Gradle. You can easily understand the concepts of Spring
Boot if you have knowledge on these concepts. It would be an additional
advantage if you have an idea about writing a RESTful Web Service. If you
are a beginner, we suggest you to go through tutorials related to these
concepts before you start with Spring Boot.
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