Custom styles (starters)

[snicoll]

Open the service to custom styles (i.e. starters). Right now, a style is defined by its name and has a textual value.

The name is used to build the actual dependency declaration, something like:

<dependencies><% styles.each { %>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter${it}</artifactId>
  </dependency><% } %>

This should be replaced by a more descriptive way of defining the starter, i.e.

• groupId
• artifactId
• version

To avoid the burden of repeating the groupId (and version), a set of styles can be grouped with a default for those.

This means that a custom/external style relates to one starter (or whatever the dependency is called). I think that's actually a good thing because it forces these to be easily configurable.