Spring Boot is an open source, microservice-based Java framework. It provides a good platform for Java developers to develop a stand-alone and production-grade Spring application.
Spring Boot is built on the top of the Spring Framework and provides developers with an easier and faster way to set up, configure, and run both simple and web-based applications. This is achieved by providing three notable features:
1. Autoconfiguration. Spring Boot automatically configures your application based on the dependencies you have added to the project and therefore helps you increase productivity and accelerate application development.
2. Opinionated approach. After you have defined the needs of your project during the initialization process, Spring Boot takes over. Following its own judgment, it chooses which packages to install and which default values to use, rather than requiring you to make all those decisions yourself and set up everything manually.
3. Standalone. Spring Boot helps developers create standalone applications that just run, without relying on an external web server. You can launch your application on any platform by simply hitting the Run command.
At Cegal, we have many Java developers who use Spring Boot in their projects. It allows them to minimize the configuration times and focus on solving business challenges.