Get To Know The Features of Spring Boot

Below are 3 major features of spring boot to know so as to enhance the knowledge of java in detail.

Though it is not particularly a great thing, this feature which is extremely useful is often looked by beginners. Spring boot is pretty flexible and well documented on this. For example, you can either use ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES, --command-line-arguments or -Dsystem.properties, which you’ll finally inject on the required fields. For more details, go through a good spring boot tutorial.

Actuator helps your give production readiness. For a true production-ready application, you will require to look into the application beyond whatever used face interface your application is running. For example, you can create such a thing for health checks:
• A builder.up() will tell that everything is okay
• Or builder.down() or throwing an exception will tell that something isn’t right.
• Add .withDetail("…") to give some more information
Also, you can expose over an HTTP endpoint things, like configuration. They are keys that include common words for things that are protected which might get blanked out.

Fat jars are not a new thing in spring boots. But they are also a good alternative to using Docker images. Yes! You might not know about it. Thought it has nothing to do with the Docker, Cgroups can cause unusual long pause during garbage collection and sometimes distributing simple files can be a lot more convenient than the alternative. Spring offers an excellent Maven plugin that does everything for you.

It is more a convention over configuration. Though this is one of the major criticism of Spring Boot, you can do wonders with it. Java is a static and old-fashioned language.

But take a look at org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication annotation. It has two more annotations. First - @ComponentScan that enables scanning for beans as long as they are given usual @component annotation.

Second - @EnableAutoConfiguration is a little bit more complicated, but it ensures that Spring is scanning the classpath for all spring.factories property files.

Now as you are aware of some excellent features of Spring Boot i.e. Starter Projects, Auto Configuration, and Starter Parent. You can take help of a variety of resources to learn , it is time to get started.