Spring Boot can automatically provide configuration for application functionality, which is common to many Spring applications. Auto-configuration works by analyzing the classpath as follows:
- If you forget a dependency, Spring Boot can't configure it
- A dependency management tool is recommended
- Spring Boot Parent and Starters make it much easier
- Spring Boot works with Maven, Gradle, and Ant/Ivy
Spring Boot offers auto-configuration of those modules in your Spring application based on the JAR dependencies that you have added. Suppose you added the JPA starter dependency (spring-boot-starter-data-jpa) in your Spring application classpath; Spring Boot attempts to automatically configure JPA to your Spring application. ...
