The recommended way to enable Spring Boot in your project is by using a dependency management system. Here, you can see a short snippet of how to include appropriate artifacts in your Maven and Gradle projects. Here is a sample fragment from the Maven pom.xml:
<parent> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId> <version>1.5.7.RELEASE</version></parent><dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId> </dependency></dependencies>
With Gradle, we do not need to define parent dependency. Here's a fragment from build.gradle:
plugins { id 'org.springframework.boot' version '1.5.7.RELEASE' ...
