Step04.md

What You Will Learn during this Step:

• Understand Starter Parent
• How to override things defined in Starter Parent
• Other starter projects

Starter Parent

• Dependency Versions
• Java Versions
• Default Plugins

Other Starter Projects

• spring-boot-starter-web-services
• spring-boot-starter-test
• spring-boot-starter-jdbc
• spring-boot-starter-security
• spring-boot-starter-data-jpa
• spring-boot-starter-data-rest
• More at https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#using-boot-starter

Useful Snippets and References

First Snippet

    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
    </parent>