Spring Boot helps you to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring-based applications that you can run. We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries, so that you can get …

Documentation Overview This section provides a brief overview of Spring Boot reference documentation. It serves as a map for the rest of the document.

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This section provides a brief overview of Spring Boot reference documentation. It serves as a map for the rest of the document.

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This section provides answers to some common ‘how do I do that… ’ questions that often arise when using Spring Boot. Its coverage is not exhaustive, but it does cover quite a lot.

Spring Boot’s documentation is specific to that version, so any information that you find in here will contain the most up-to-date changes that are in that version.

All of Spring Boot is open source, including the documentation. If you find problems with the docs or if you want to improve them, please get involved.

Spring Boot provides a number of starters that let you add jars to your classpath. Starters provide dependencies that you are likely to need when developing a specific type of application.

Spring Boot’s documentation is specific to that version, so any information that you find in here will contain the most up-to-date changes that are in that version.