Spring Boot is a new framework provided by the Pivotal team, designed to simplify the initial setup and development of new Spring applications. The framework uses a specific way to configure, so that developers no longer need to define boilerplate configuration. In this way, Boot aims to be a leader in the burgeoning field of rapid application development.
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.