Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, and user input are shown as follows: "Configure spring-boot-starter-parent in your pom.xml file".

A block of code is set as follows:

<properties>
  <mockito.version>1.10.20</mockito.version>
</properties>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

 mvn clean install

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Provide the details and click on Generate Project."

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.