SpringBoot is a Spring Framework module that has some features to help developers create a production-class application. SpringBoot is a combination of two words—BOOT is from bootstrap, while SPRING is a framework used to build Java enterprise applications. This is a large framework that's also supported by numerous other frameworks. SpringBoot is similar in that it lets you bootstrap a spring application from scratch, which is how it gets the name SpringBoot. According to spring.io, here's the definition of SpringBoot—"Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade, Spring-based applications that you can just run." This means that it helps you to create a runnable project without the help of others. In addition, we showed a production-grade project here, which is a ready-product application. SpringBoot minimizes the pain of setting up an application.
The features of SpringBoot are as follows:
- It helps to create a standalone Spring application.
- It comes with Tomcat, Jetty, or Undertow, and so there's no need to worry about setting up the server environment.
- With the use of SpringBoot, you don't need to deploy WAR files.
- Third-party frameworks can be imported automatically with their configurations.
- XML configuration isn't required if you use SpringBoot.