Developing applications with Spring Boot

The recommended way to enable Spring Boot in your project is by using a dependency management system. Here, you can see a short snippet of how to include appropriate artifacts in your Maven and Gradle projects. Here is a sample fragment from the Maven pom.xml:

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.5.7.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

With Gradle, we do not need to define parent dependency. Here's a fragment from build.gradle:

plugins {
    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '1.5.7.RELEASE'
}
dependencies {
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:1.5.7.RELEASE")
}

When using Maven...