Chapter 1. Getting Started with Spring Boot
Spring Boot has a lot of starters that are already a part of the Spring Boot family. This chapter will provide you with an overview of http://start.spring.io/, available components provided by Spring Boot, and will also show you how to make a project Bootiful, as Josh Long likes to call it.
In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:
- Using a Spring Boot template and starter
 - Creating a simple application
 - Launching an application using Gradle
 - Using the command-line runners
 - Setting up a database connection
 - Setting up a data repository service
 - Scheduling executors