Spring Boot

Question 1

Issues with Spring

Answer 1

• Known to be a lightweight framework, Spring is very heavy when it comes to setup.
• Writing configuration is time consuming and often takes time from writing application logic.
• And lastly, project dependency management could be a frustrating task as Spring dependencies are very version sensitive.
• Much of configuration and dependency management is redundant and is similar from one project to the other.

Question 2

What does Spring Boot do?

Answer 2

Features of Spring Boot
* Automatic common configuration.
* Starter dependencies.
* Spring boot comes with a command-line interface (Spring boot CLI)
* Actuator—additional feature to help monitor and manage a spring boot application