Spring Boot starters are maven templates that contain a collection of all the relevant transitive dependencies that are needed to start a particular functionality.
For example, If we want to create a Spring WebMVC application then in a traditional setup, we would have included all required dependencies ourselves. It leaves the chances of version conflict which ultimately result in more runtime exceptions.
With Spring boot, to create web MVC application, all we need to import is spring-boot-starter-web dependency. Transitively, it brings in all other required dependencies to build a web application e.g. spring-webmvc, spring-web, hibernate-validator, tomcat-embed-core, tomcat-embed-el, tomcat-embed-websocket, jackson-databind, jackson-datatype-jdk8, jackson-datatype-jsr310 and jackson-module-parameter-names.
<dependency><groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId><artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId></dependency> |
