Spring Boot is an open-source Java framework that was developed by Pivotal in 2014 and simplifies the task of deploying Java enterprise web applications. It is a project built on top of the Spring framework that provides an efficient way to set up and run applications.
Spring Boot consists of the Spring Framework and Embedded Servers. Because it uses convention over configuration software design, it does not require XML configuration.
Spring Boot was created to achieve the following goals:
Simplify the process of developing production-ready Spring
applications.
Avoid XML configuration in Spring.
Reduce development time by decreasing the number of needed
import statements.
Provide an opinionated development approach.
Advantages of using Spring Boot:
Creates stand-alone Spring applications that only need to be
started using Java -jar.
Provides features for products such as health checks and
externalized configuration.
Provides a CLI tool for developing and testing your application
Rapidly increases productivity.
Reduces development time.
Easy to learn and build spring applications.
Limitations of Spring Boot:
Sometimes, Spring Boot will use dependencies that are not actually used in the application. This can increase the size of your application.
Though Spring Boot comes with some basic tools for logs and your app health monitoring, these aren’t sufficient. Tools like Retrace help teams monitor Java apps with ease. This tool helps to detect slow SQL queries, provides performance and CPU usage reports, and shows the most common errors by interpreting the logs.
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