Spring Boot

Spring Boot is an open source and free app development tool supported by VMware Tanzu designed to make it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that can "just run". Spring Boot offers an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so users can start with minimum fuss.

Users can:

• Create stand-alone Spring applications
• Embed Tomcat, Jetty or Undertow directly (no need to deploy WAR files)
• Provide opinionated 'starter' dependencies to simplify the build configuration
• Automatically configure Spring and 3rd party libraries whenever possible
• Provide production-ready features such as metrics, health checks, and externalized configuration
• Absolutely no code generation and no requirement for XML configuration