sprint boot

What is Spring Boot?

Spring Boot is a brand new framework from the team at Pivotal, designed to simplify the bootstrapping and development of a new Spring application. The framework takes an opinionated approach to configuration, freeing developers from the need to define boilerplate configuration. In that, Boot aims to be a front-runner in the ever-expanding rapid application development space.

Benefits of using Spring Boot?

• no xml
• fast, only need to include one or two jars
• easy to integrate spring facilities, like spring data

An example with gradle

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buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.2.3.RELEASE")
    }
}

apply plugin: 'spring-boot'
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'java'

sourceCompatibility = 1.7

jar {
    baseName = 'spring-boot'
    version = '1.0-SNAPSHOT'
}


repositories {
    mavenCentral();
}

dependencies {
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:1.2.3.RELEASE")
    testCompile('junit:junit:4.12')
}

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '2.4'
}

An official example to start with

http://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot/