In the previous chapter, we just started our Spring application. As you can see, it runs and it stops. This is because we did not implement anything in our application to work with. You will also have noticed that when you start the application, one of the noticeable logs says :: Spring Boot ::. That is because we use Spring Boot to run the application. Spring Boot is a framework that we will use to simplify the bootstrapping and development of an application. It frees developers from the need to define a boilerplate configuration.
As we have already said, when we run our Spring application, Spring Boot starts and terminates since there is nothing to do. In this chapter, we will define some things. We will create our first implementation!
Here, you will learn about the following topics:
- Defining dependencies for our project...