Spring Boot
Original author(s)Rod Johnson
Developer(s)VMware
Initial releaseApril 2014 (2014-04)
Stable release
3.2.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 21 December 2023 (21 December 2023)
Repository
Written inJava
PlatformJava EE
TypeApplication framework
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitespring.io/projects/spring-boot Edit this on Wikidata

Spring Boot Extension is Spring's convention-over-configuration solution intended to aid in creating production-grade[2] Spring applications with minimal amounts of configuration.[3] Most of the application can be preconfigured using Spring team's "opinionated view"[4][5] of the best configuration and use of the Spring platform and third-party libraries. A Spring Boot application can be written using several programming languages, including Java and Kotlin.[6]

Features

Bootstrapping DispatcherServlet

Spring Boot does not require manual configuration of the DispatcherServlet, since it automatically configures the application based on the configuration it detects.[13]

SpringBootServletInitializer

Spring Boot has a class SpringBootServletInitializer, which is a specialization of the WebApplicationInitializer.[13] This SpringBootServletInitializer is an out-of-the-box implementation of WebApplicationInitializer, which eliminates the need for the developer to construct their own implementation of the WebApplicationInitializer class.[13]

Configuration properties

The configuration properties for the Spring Boot application can be specified in the application.properties or application.yml file.[13] Examples of properties that can be included in this file include the server.port and spring.application.name properties.[13]

Autoconfiguration

@SpringBootApplication

Spring boot has an annotation, @SpringBootApplication, which allows the Spring Boot application to autoconfigure third-party libraries and detected features found on the classpath.[13] As an example, the class that has the @SpringBootApplication annotation can extend the SpringBootServerInitializer class if the application is packaged and deployed as a WAR file.[13]

The @SpringBootApplication annotation combines three Spring-specific annotations: @SpringBootConfiguration, @EnableAutoConfiguration and @ComponentScan.[14]

@SpringBootConfiguration

The @SpringBootConfiguration annotation is a specialization of the Spring-specific @Configuration annotation.[14] The class with the @SpringBootConfiguration is marked as the configuration class for the Spring Boot application.[14]

@EnableAutoConfiguration

The @EnableAutoConfiguration annotation is Spring-specific annotation that enables the Spring Boot automatic configuration. [14]

Actuator

The Spring Boot Actuator allows for monitoring and management capabilities for the Spring Boot Application.[15] A major advantage of using the Spring Boot Actuator is it implements a number of production-ready features without requiring the developer to construct their own implementations.[15]

If Maven is used as the build tool, then the spring-boot-starter-actuator dependency can be specified in the pom.xml configuration file.[16]

Integration with Spring Framework Modules

Spring Boot has a number of existing Spring Framework Modules.

Spring Security

Spring Boot has integration with the Spring Security Module. The simplest way for integrating Spring Boot with Spring Security is to declare the starter dependency in the build configuration file.[17]

If Maven is used as the build tool, then the dependency with artifact ID spring-boot-starter-security dependency can be specified in the pom.xml configuration file.[17]

Application Servers

By default, Spring boot provides embedded web servers (such as TomCat) out-of-the-box.[18] However, Spring Boot can also be deployed as a WAR file on a standalone WildFly application server.[19]

If Maven is used as the build tool, there is a wildfly-maven-plugin Maven plugin that allows for automatic deployment of the generated WAR file.[19]

References

  1. ↑ "Release v3.2.1". 21 December 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
  2. 1 2 Walls 2016, p. vii, §foreword.
  3. ↑ Walls 2016, pp. 37–48, §2.3.
  4. ↑ Walls 2016, p. 48, §2.4.
  5. ↑ Deinum & Cosmina 2021, pp. 21–22, §2 Spring Framework Fundamentals.
  6. ↑ Musib 2022, p. 9, §1.2.2 Java vs Kotlin.
  7. 1 2 Walls 2016, p. 7, §1.1.3.
  8. 1 2 Walls 2016, p. x, §Preface.
  9. ↑ Musib 2022, p. 9, §1.2.1 Maven vs Gradle.
  10. ↑ Walls 2016, pp. 4–5, §1.1.2.
  11. 1 2 Walls 2016, pp. 124–139, §7.
  12. ↑ Walls 2016, pp. 49–69, §3.1-§3.2.3.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Deinum & Cosmina 2021, pp. 52–54, §2 Spring Framework Fundamentals - Spring Boot.
  14. 1 2 3 4 Walls 2019, pp. 11–17, §1.2.2 Examining the Spring project structure.
  15. 1 2 Musib 2022, pp. 144–145, §4.4 Spring Boot Actuator.
  16. ↑ Musib 2022, pp. 145–146, §4.4.1 Configuring Spring Boot Actuator in a Spring Boot application.
  17. 1 2 Musib 2022, pp. 187–192, §5.2.1 Configuring Spring Boot Actuator in a Spring Boot application.
  18. ↑ Musib 2022, pp. 7–8, §1.1.4 Spring Boot components.
  19. 1 2 Musib 2022, pp. 406–417, §9.2 Deploying Spring Boot application as WAR in the wildfly application server.
  • Deinum, Marten; Cosmina, Iuliana (2021). Pro Spring MVC with WebFlux. Berkeley, CA: Apress. doi:10.1007/978-1-4842-5666-4. ISBN 978-1-4842-5665-7. S2CID 231672329.
  • Musib, Somnath (July 12, 2022). Spring Boot in Practice. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-61729-881-3.
  • Walls, Craig (Jan 3, 2016). Spring Boot in Action. Manning. ISBN 978-1-61729-254-5.
  • Walls, Craig (2019). Spring in Action. Manning. ISBN 978-1-61729-494-5.
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