What is Spring Boot Starter?

Spring Boot Starters are just JAR Files. They are used by Spring Boot Framework to provide “Auto-Dependency Resolution”.

What is Spring Boot AutoConfigurator?

Spring Boot AutoConfigurator is used by Spring Boot Framework to provide “Auto-Configuration”.

What is Spring Boot CLI?

What is Spring Boot CLI?

In simple words, Spring Boot CLI is Auto Dependency Resolution, Auto-Configuration, Management EndPoints, Embedded HTTP Servers(Jetty, Tomcat etc.) and (Groovy, Auto-Imports)

In other words, Spring Boot CLI is Spring Boot Starter, Spring Boot Auto-Configurator, Spring Boot Actuator, Embedded HTTP Servers, and Groovy.

  What is Spring Boot Actuator?

Spring Boot Actuator is used by Spring Boot Framework to provide “Management EndPoints” to see Application Internals, Metrics etc.

Spring Boot Components?

Spring Boot Framework has the following components:

1. Spring Boot Starter
2. Spring Boot AutoConfigurator
3. Spring Boot Actuator
4. Spring Boot CLI
5. Spring Boot Initilizr

Brief description about Spring Boot?

In simple words, Spring Boot Framework is Auto-Dependency Resolution, Auto-Configuration, Management EndPoints, Embedded HTTP Servers(Jetty/Tomcat etc.) and Spring Boot CLI.

Why should you use it? 
Spring Boot helps you accelerate and facilitate application development but also improves the productivity because it lets you focus only on writing your business logic.

What you’ll need create spring boot application

• About 15 minutes
  
• A favorite text editor or IDE
  
• JDK 1.8 or later
  
• Gradle 4+ or Maven 3.2+
  
• You can also import the code straight into your IDE:
  
  • Spring Tool Suite (STS)
    
  • IntelliJ IDE