As you will see, the parent project for our own service is spring-boot-starter-parent. Spring this is the parent project providing dependency and plugin management for Spring Boot-based applications. This gives us a lot of features to start with. We also include two starters:
- spring-boot-starter-web: This is because we are going to create our request mappings (similar to @GET or @POST mappings with the @Path annotation we did previously using JEE7 JAX-RS
- spring-boot-starter-data-jpa: Because we are going to save our books in the in-memory H2 database
Starters are simplified dependency descriptors customized for different purposes. For example, spring-boot-starter-web is the starter for building web and RESTful, applications ...
