Using a Spring Boot template and starter
Spring Boot comes with over 40 different starter modules, which provide ready-to-use integration libraries for many different frameworks, such as database connections that are both relational and NoSQL, web services, social network integration, monitoring libraries, logging, template rendering, and the list just keeps going on. While it is not practically feasible to cover every single one of these components, we will go over the important and popular ones to get an idea of the possibilities and the ease of application development that Spring Boot provides us with.
How to do it...
We will start by creating a basic simple project skeleton, and Spring Boot will help us achieve this:
- Head over to http://start.spring.io
- Fill out a simple form with the details about our project
- Click on
Generate Project alt +a premade project skeleton will download; this is where we begin
How it works...
You will see the Project Dependencies section, where we can choose the...
