What Is Spring Boot And Why Spring Boot?

What Is Spring Boot And Why Spring Boot?


  • Spring Boot is not a framework, it is a way to create any kind of spring application with minimal or zero configurations.
  • Spring Boot is a Spring framework module that provides the RAD (Rapid Application Development) feature to the Spring framework.
  • Spring Boot is a way by which you can bootstrap or quickly create Any spring application.

Official Definition of Spring Boot:

  • Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can “just run”

Springboot = (Spring + Boot) :




As per the diagram add the Embedded HTTP server (Tomcat, Jetty, and Weblogic) and remove XML configuration in the spring framework then it becomes spring boot, here spring is a Java Enterprise framework and boot is bootstrap.

Why Spring Boot?

  • Develop Spring Application Faster
  • Avoid Boiler Plate Code
  • Convention over configuration
  • Embedded Tomcat Embedded Tomcat Embedded Tomcat

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