The Spring Boot Starters are a set of convenient dependency descriptors which can be included in your application. By including one of these in your project, you get a set of well-configured, ready-to-use dependencies which you can use to get your project up and running quickly and easily.
In this post, we'll take a look at what the Spring Boot Starters are, how they work, and how you can use them in your own projects.
The Spring Boot Starters are a set of dependency descriptors which can be included in your project. These descriptors define a set of well-configured, ready-to-use dependencies which can be used to get your project up and running quickly and easily.
The Spring Boot Starters are divided into two groups: the Core Starters and the Web Starters. The Core Starters are the dependencies which are required for any Spring Boot application. The Web Starters are the dependencies which are required for any Spring Boot application which will be exposing a web interface.
The Spring Boot Starters work by providing a set of well-configured, ready-to-use dependencies. These dependencies can be used to get your project up and running quickly and easily.
Including a Spring Boot Starter in your project will automatically include any dependencies which are required by that Starter. For example, including the spring-boot-starter-web
Starter in your project will automatically include the spring-boot-starter-tomcat
Starter, as the spring-boot-starter-web
Starter depends on the spring-boot-starter-tomcat
Starter.
Including a Spring Boot Starter in your own project is easy. Simply add the appropriate dependency to your project's pom.xml
file.
For example, to include the spring-boot-starter-web
Starter in your project, you would add the following dependency to your pom.xml
file:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
In this post, we've taken a look at what the Spring Boot Starters are, how they work, and how you can use them in your own projects.