Chapter 1

1. Spring Boot is a Java-based web application framework that is based on Spring. With Spring Boot, you can develop standalone web applications with embedded application servers.
2. Eclipse is an open source integrated development environment (IDE), and it is mostly used for Java programming, but it supports multiple other programming languages as well.
3. Maven is an open source software project-management tool. Maven can manage builds, documentation, testing, and more in the software development project.
4. The easiest way to start a new Spring Boot project is to create it with the Spring Initializr web page. This creates a skeleton for your project with the modules that you need.
5. If you are using the Eclipse IDE, you just activate your main class and press the Run button. You can also use the Maven mvn spring-boot:run command to run an application.
6. The Spring Boot starter package provides logging features for you. You can define the level of logging in the...