I have been trying to understand Spring Boot and maybe migrate my project to it. However I do not get the real advantage of it except the embedded Tomcat. Would you kindly explain to me what is the real power of Spring Boot compared to regular Spring?
Advantages of Spring Boot:It reduces lots of development time and increases productivity. It avoids writing lots of boilerplate Code, Annotations and XML Configuration. It is very easy to integrate Spring Boot Application with its Spring Ecosystem like Spring JDBC, Spring ORM, Spring Data, Spring Security etc.
Disadvantages of Spring Boot Spring Boot creates a lot of unused dependencies, resulting in a large deployment file; The complex and time-consuming process of converting a legacy or an existing Spring project to a Spring Boot application; Not suitable for large-scale projects.
Parallel Mechanisms – One of the biggest advantages of Spring is that it gives developers a wide array of options, but this could also be a disadvantage because it causes confusion. Developers have to know which features will be useful, and making the wrong decisions could lead to significant delays.
Spring Boot @SpringBootApplication annotation is used to mark a configuration class that declares one or more @Bean methods and also triggers auto-configuration and component scanning. It's same as declaring a class with @Configuration, @EnableAutoConfiguration and @ComponentScan annotations.
Quoting from the Spring Boot Page, it has following features:
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