Spring Boot Concepts

Internal

• Spring Boot

Developer Tools

Additional set of tools that come as part of Spring Boot, and which can make, according to the documentation, "development experience a little more pleasant". The artifacts are identified as org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools. They include the following development-time features:

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Development tools are disabled when running as a fully packaged application (such as with java -jar). They should be declared optional in Maven or "compileOnly" in Gradle.

Configuration Processor

TO process: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.0.5.RELEASE/reference/htmlsingle/#configuration-metadata-annotation-processor.

Caching

Spring Boot automatically configures a suitable cache manager to serve as provider for the relevant cache.

TODO: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-caching.html. Also see Spring Framework Cache Abstraction.

IntelliJ Support

IntelliJ IDEA Plugin for Spring Boot