# Spring Boot

Spring boot is sort of a configuration wrapper around the Spring MVC Framework.
### Dependency Management
Maven or Gradle are supported. Can be used with Ant, but not reccommended.

Each version of Spring Boot is configured to work with a specific version of Spring Framework. Whenever possible, do not specify versions in POM, allow versions to inherit from parent. **Don't override the Spring Framework version!!**

### Spring Boot Starters
Starters are top level dependencies for popular Java libraries. They will bring in deps for the project and related Spring components (Hibernate, JPA, etc.)

### Spring Boot Annotations
- @SpringBootApplication - main annotation to use. Includes:
	- @Configuration - Delcares class as Spring Configuation
	- @EnableAutoConfiguration - Enables auto configuration
	- @ComponentScan - Scans for components in current package and all child packages
### Disabling Specific Auto Config
Autoconfig brings in A LOT of configuration classes in supplied Spring Boot Jars
To Exlude: @EnableAutoConfiguration(exlude={DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class}).
Pass in the parameter *-debug* for a report of the Autoconfig