This is beginners to expert Spring Boot tutorial.  We have used the latest release ofSpring Boot 2+ in all examples. This tutorial gives you all the possible Spring boot features that are required to build a Spring-based enterprise J2EE web applications or RESTful APIs. Spring Boot uses a completely new development model to make Java Development very easy by avoiding some tedious development steps and boilerplate code and configuration.

Spring Boot is a brand new framework from the team at Pivotal, designed to simplify the bootstrapping and development of a new Spring application. The framework takes an opinionated approach to configuration, freeing developers from the need to define a boilerplate configuration. It provides defaults for code and annotation configuration to quick start new Spring projects within no time.

Spring Boot 2.0 requires Java 8 or later. Java 6 and 7 are no longer supported. It also requires Spring Framework 5.0

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After reading above all Spring Boot articles, we can summarize the advantages of Spring boot as follows.