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In this tutorial, we are going to see about Spring boot starters. This is part of Spring boot tutorial series.
Dependency management is one of the critical tasks while working on any project. You want to create a new spring project with JPA capabilities. Do you know what dependencies you need to include? You might go to web, copy dependencies from the sample project and use it in the project
Spring boot starters solve the exactly same problem. Starters are a set of convenient dependency descriptors that you can use to bootstrap your spring applications.
Spring boot starters contain a lot of predefined dependencies with supported set of transitive dependencies.
Spring boot starters naming convention
All Spring boot starters follow the same naming convention for easy search.All the starters start with spring-boot-starter-* .
For example:
Name of JPA starter is spring-boot-starter-data-jpa
List of popular Spring boot JPA starter
| Starter | Description |
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| spring-boot-starter | Core starter, including auto-configuration support, logging and YAML |
| spring-boot-starter-activemq | Starter for JMS messaging using Apache ActiveMQ |
| spring-boot-starter-aop | Starter for aspect-oriented programming with Spring AOP and AspectJ |
| spring-boot-starter-batch | Starter for using Spring Batch |
| spring-boot-starter-cache | Starter for using Spring Framework’s caching support |
| spring-boot-starter-data-elasticsearch | Starter for using Elasticsearch search and analytics engine and Spring Data Elasticsearch |
| spring-boot-starter-data-jpa | Starter for using Spring Data JPA with Hibernate |
| spring-boot-starter-data-ldap | Starter for using Spring Data LDAP |
| spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb | Starter for using MongoDB document-oriented database and Spring Data MongoDB |
| spring-boot-starter-data-redis | Starter for using Redis key-value data store with Spring Data Redis and the Lettuce client |
| spring-boot-starter-data-rest | Starter for exposing Spring Data repositories over REST using Spring Data REST |
| spring-boot-starter-freemarker | Starter for building MVC web applications using FreeMarker views |
| spring-boot-starter-hateoas | Starter for building hypermedia-based RESTful web application with Spring MVC and Spring HATEOAS |
| spring-boot-starter-integration | Starter for using Spring Integration |
| spring-boot-starter-jdbc | Starter for using JDBC with the HikariCP connection pool |
| spring-boot-starter-jersey | Starter for building RESTful web applications using JAX-RS and Jersey. An alternative to spring-boot-starter-web |
| spring-boot-starter-json | Starter for reading and writing json |
| spring-boot-starter-mail | Starter for using Java Mail and Spring Framework’s email sending support |
| spring-boot-starter-quartz | Starter for using the Quartz scheduler |
| spring-boot-starter-security | Starter for using Spring Security |
| spring-boot-starter-test | Starter for testing Spring Boot applications with libraries including JUnit, Hamcrest and Mockito |
| spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf | Starter for building MVC web applications using Thymeleaf views |
| spring-boot-starter-validation | Starter for using Java Bean Validation with Hibernate Validator |
| spring-boot-starter-web | Starter for building web, including RESTful, applications using Spring MVC. Uses Tomcat as the default embedded container |
| spring-boot-starter-web-services | Starter for using Spring Web Services |
Spring boot starters example
Let’s say you want to create a project which supports ActiveMQ operations. You just need to add below POM entry apart from parent pom.
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<dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-activemq</artifactId> </dependency> </dependencies> |
Here is complete pom.xml for Spring boot ActiveMQ project.
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<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>org.arpit.java2blog</groupId> <artifactId>SpringBootActiveMQExample</artifactId> <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version> <parent> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId> <version>1.5.3.RELEASE</version> <relativePath /> </parent> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-activemq</artifactId> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <finalName>SpringBootActiveMQExample</finalName> </build> </project> |
If you can refer working example of Spring boot ActiveMQ example.
