About Biju Kunjummen
Spring-boot provides a quick way to create a Spring based application. There are some very compelling reasons to consider spring-boot for your next project:
Reason 1 : Simpler Dependency management using spring-boot starter projects.
Consider the effort required to start up a CRUD web application using Spring-boot, assuming that the CRUD is implemented using a h2 database with Spring-Data providing the data access abstraction. The maven pom required for such a project is the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><project ... <parent> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId> <version>0.5.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version> </parent> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.thymeleaf</groupId> <artifactId>thymeleaf-spring3</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jetty</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId> <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId> <scope>runtime</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId> <artifactId>hamcrest-library</artifactId> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId> </plugin> </plugins> </build></project>
Source : http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/09/reasons-to-consider-spring-boot-for-your-next-spring-based-application.html
