#SpringBoot : Tutorial Part 3 (Basic Spring Boot Project)

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In the part 1 of #SpringBoot tutorial we got the gist of the Spring Boot, in part 2 we discussed dependency injection. Now in this tutorial we will create a basic Spring Boot project from scratch.

You can STS (Spring Tool Suite) to create the project. STS is an Eclipse-based development environment. It is an IDE to develop Spring applications. It provides a ready-to-use environment to implement, run, deploy, and debug the application.

You can download the Spring Tool Suite from https://spring.io/tools3/sts/all. It's pretty simple to install.

#SpringBoot : Tutorial Part 2 (Dependency Injection)

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In the previous tutorial we got the gist of the Spring Boot. Before proceeding further let's discuss Dependency Injection.

What is Dependency Injection (DI)?

When writing a complex Java application, application classes should be as independent as possible of other Java classes to increase the possibility to reuse these classes and to test them independently of other classes while doing unit testing. Dependency Injection helps in gluing these classes together and keeping them independent at the same time.

Dependency Injection design pattern allows us to remove the hard-coded dependencies and make our application loosely coupled, extendable and maintainable. 

#SpringBoot : Tutorial Part 1

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In this tutorial we will have some basic theoretical knowledge about Spring Boot.

What is Spring Boot?

• Spring Boot is not a framework, it is a way to create stand-alone applications with minimal or zero configurations.
• With Spring Boot we can develop spring based applications with very less configuration. It provides defaults for code and annotation configuration to quickly start new spring projects within no time.
• It is a Spring module that provides the RAD (Rapid Application Development) feature to the Spring Framework. It comes with the auto-dependency resolution, embedded HTTP servers, auto-configuration, management endpoints and Spring Boot CLI.
• SpringBoot uses convention over configuration software design paradigm, that's why in SpringBoot we don't have XML configuration (deployment descriptor) or beans defined with @Configuration. It had embedded HTTP servers. In short we can say Spring Boot is the combination of Spring Framework and Embedded Servers.