Basic Spring Boot Application Example:
We have already went through various examples using spring, To understand spring please refer here.
What is Spring Boot?
Spring Boot is a way to create stand-alone applications with less or no configurations and has defaults for annotation configuration which we will use in our application
Advantages of Spring Boot:
- Reduces development time
- Embedded Servers
- No XML configuration
- Integration with Spring JDBC, Spring ORM etc.
Now let us see an basic example to create spring boot application in Netbeans.
pom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>javainfinite.springboot</groupId> <artifactId>SpringBootApplication</artifactId> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>jar</packaging> <properties> <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source> <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target> </properties> <parent> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId> <version>1.5.6.RELEASE</version> </parent> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.5.1</version> <configuration> <source>1.8</source> <target>1.8</target> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> <name>SpringBootApplication</name> </project>
SpringBootApp.java
package javainfinite.springboot; import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication; import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication; /** * * @author Vikram */ @SpringBootApplication public class SpringBootApp { public static void main(String args[]){ SpringApplication.run(SpringBootApp.class, args); } }
We have created basic spring boot application!