Spring Boot是由Pivotal团队提供的全新框架，其设计目的是用来简化新Spring应用的初始搭建以及开发过程。该框架使用了特定的方式来进行配置，从而使开发人员不再需要定义样板化的配置。通过这种方式，Boot致力于在蓬勃发展的快速应用开发领域（rapid application development）成为领导者。
Takes an opinionated view of building production-ready Spring applications. Spring Boot favors convention over configuration and is designed to get you up and running as quickly as possible.
Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that 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.
Features
1)Create stand-alone Spring applications
2)Embed Tomcat, Jetty or Undertow directly (no need to deploy WAR files)
3)Provide opinionated 'starter' POMs to simplify your Maven configuration
4)Automatically configure Spring whenever possible
5)Provide production-ready features such as metrics, health checks and externalized configuration
6)Absolutely no code generation and no requirement for XML configuration
The reference guide includes detailed descriptions of all the features, plus an extensive howto for common use cases.