I learned about Spring Boot at a talk on the project at a Software Development conference. When I saw the talk, one of the first things that came to mind was, “this would be great for building microservices.” Apparently, I’m not the only one to have that thought, because I recently came across this article:
Tag: spring
Spring Boot: Create Spring applications with minimal configuation
Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that can 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 very little Spring configuration.
- Create stand-alone Spring applications
- Embed Tomcat or Jetty directly (no need to deploy WAR files)
- Provide opinionated ‘starter’ POMs to simplify your Maven configuration
- Automatically configure Spring whenever possible
- Provide production-ready features such as metrics, health checks and externalized configuration
- Absolutely no code generation and no requirement for XML configuration