As we have discussed in the previous section, the Spring Framework provides lot of flexibility to configure beans in the Spring application in multiple ways such as XML, annotation, and Java configuration. But remember, if the number of modules and features increases in the Spring application, it also increases the complexity in the configuration. After a point, your Spring application tends to become tedious and error-prone.
Here, Spring Boot comes into the picture to address the complexity of the configuration of your Spring application.
Spring Boot does exactly what you are looking for. It will do things automatically for you but allows you to override the defaults if required. ...
