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Richard
Richard

Reputation: 6116

Understanding Spring Boot

I am trying to understand the difference between spring boot and spring boot web. From this boot tutorial the pom contains spring boot as the parent and spring boot web as a dependency like so:

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.3.1.RELEASE</version>
</parent>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

What are the uses for the 2 different versions? Do you always use them together? This spring boot documentation tells me if the program is production ready to use:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

But if that's the case then why isn't there one for web like so:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web-actuator</artifactId>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Upvotes: 12

Views: 4461

Answers (5)

Mohan kumar
Mohan kumar

Reputation: 123

1.spring-boot-starter-parent deals with the auto start of main method and run methods so on.. 2.and spring-boot-starter-web deals with the spring MVC things like controller, autowired so on.. Hope this helps..

Upvotes: 3

ShayneR
ShayneR

Reputation: 476

From: https://docs.spring.io

Spring Boot provides a number of “Starters” that auto-configures your application adds jars to your classpath. The spring-boot-starter-parent is a core starter that provides useful maven defaults. It also provides a dependency-management section so that if you import additional starters then you can omit version tags for “blessed” dependencies. Therefore you should only need to specify the Spring Boot version number on this dependency

Starters are a set of convenient dependency descriptors that you can include in your application considering each starter covers a specific area.The starters contain a lot of the dependencies that you need to get a project up and running quickly and with a consistent, supported set of managed transitive dependencies.For example, if you want to get started using Spring and JPA for database access, just include the "spring-boot-starter-data-jpa" dependency in your project, and you are good to go. Spring Boot spring-boot-starter-web is starter for building web, including RESTful, applications using Spring MVC. It uses Tomcat as the default embedded container

Spring Boot has different groups of starters like

1-Spring Boot application starters: spring-boot-starter-web , spring-boot-starter-jdbc , spring-boot-starter-jpa etc

2-Spring Boot production starters : spring-boot-starter-actuator which provides production ready features to help you monitor and manage your application

3-Spring Boot technical starters: spring-boot-starter-jetty , spring-boot-starter-tomcat these starters can be used to exclude or swap specific technical facets

Upvotes: 3

Valerio Vaudi
Valerio Vaudi

Reputation: 4532

Spring boot is a very cool tool of Spring Source. In many conference the team talck about of Spring Boot as one of the three DSR(Domain Specific Run-Time) of Pivotal.... Spring Boot, Spring XD and Grails(now Pivotal didn't support Groovy & Grails).

That said compare Spring boot stand alone and Spring boot web enviroment may be a cool conversation. First of all Spring boot give you many production ready istruments such as actuator(avaiable whit sprin boot in web enviroment), spring remote shall and so on. The main difference is the same of had a spring stand-alone context or a Spring web context. Of course some of the potentiality that yon could have are avaiable in a web context, Actuator is an example. but the main difference is in what kind of application you need, web or stand-alone.

Upvotes: 0

james_s_tayler
james_s_tayler

Reputation: 1933

There are lots of these different 'starter' poms for spring boot. Each one of them tells maven to bring in the dependencies needed for that particular functionality. So spring-boot-starter-web brings in all the stuff needed for MVC and autoconfigures it with sensible defaults. The real trick to spring boot is it when it autoconfigures things it uses a whole of @ConditionalOnClass or other such annotations that look at what dependencies are on the classpath and provides configuration for those dependencies. What this means is when you have that spring boot actuator starter, when it's doing its autoconfiguration it will look at what other spring boot start poms you have in your pom.xml and it will configure different endpoints for the actuator so you can see the various metrics the actuator provides for that particular module.

Upvotes: 16

OPK
OPK

Reputation: 4180

Spring Boot is a framework, spring-boot-starter-web is one of the packages that comes with it, a jar file.

Just like JDK is a library, and util is one of the packages included in the JDK.

Upvotes: 3

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