Spring Boot

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

We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need minimal Spring configuration.

If you’re looking for information about a specific version, or instructions about how to upgrade from an earlier release, check out the project release notes section on our wiki.

Features

Create stand-alone Spring applications
Embed Tomcat, Jetty or Undertow directly (no need to deploy WAR files)
Provide opinionated 'starter' dependencies to simplify your build configuration
Automatically configure Spring and 3rd party libraries whenever possible
Provide production-ready features such as metrics, health checks, and externalized configuration
Absolutely no code generation and no requirement for XML configuration

Getting Started

Super quick — try the Quickstart Guide.
More general — try Building an Application with Spring Boot
More specific — try Building a RESTful Web Service.
Or search through all our guides on the Guides homepage.

Talks and videos

You can also join the Spring Boot community on Gitter!

Quickstart Your Project

Bootstrap your application with Spring Initializr.

Documentation

Each Spring project has its own; it explains in great details how you can use project features and what you can achieve with them.

2.5.3 CURRENT GA	Reference Doc.	API Doc.
2.6.0-SNAPSHOT SNAPSHOT	Reference Doc.	API Doc.
2.6.0-M1 PRE	Reference Doc.	API Doc.
2.5.4-SNAPSHOT SNAPSHOT	Reference Doc.	API Doc.
2.4.10-SNAPSHOT SNAPSHOT	Reference Doc.	API Doc.
2.4.9 GA	Reference Doc.	API Doc.
2.3.12.RELEASE GA	Reference Doc.	API Doc.
2.2.13.RELEASE GA	Reference Doc.	API Doc.

Guides

Designed to be completed in 15-30 minutes, a guide provides quick, hands-on instructions for building a starter app for any development task with Spring.

Building a RESTful Web Service Learn how to create a RESTful web service with Spring.

Tutorials

Designed to be completed in 2-3 hours, these guides provide deeper, in-context explorations of enterprise application development topics, leaving you ready to implement real-world solutions.