Q1.

Spring vs Spring Boot

Spring Spring Boot

A web application framework based on
A module of Spring
Java
Provides tools and libraries to create Used to create a Spring application
customized web applications project which can just run/ execute
Spring Boot is less complex than the
Spring is more complex than Spring Boot
Spring framework
Takes an unopinionated view Takes an opinionated view of a platform
Q2. What is Spring Boot and mention the need for it?

Spring Boot is a Spring module that aims to simplify the use of the Spring framework
for Java development. It is used to create stand-alone Spring-based applications that
you can just run. So, it basically removes a lot of configurations and dependencies.
Aiming at the Rapid Application Development, Spring Boot framework comes with
the auto-dependency resolution, embedded HTTP servers, auto-configuration,
management endpoints, and Spring Boot CLI.

So, if you ask me why should anybody use Spring Boot, then I would say, Spring
Boot not only improves productivity but also provides a lot of conveniences to write
your own business logic.

Q3. Mention the advantages of Spring Boot

The advantages of Spring Boot are as follows:

 Provides auto-configuration to load a set of default configuration for a quick

start of the application
 Creates stand-alone applications with a range of non-functional features that
are common to large classes of projects
 It comes with embedded tomcat, servlet containers jetty to avoid the usage of
WAR files
 Spring Boot provides an opinionated view to reduce the developer effort and
simplify maven configurations
 Provides CLI tool to develop and test applications
 Comes with Spring Boot starters to ensure dependency management and
also provides various security metrics
 Consists of a wide range of APIs for monitoring and managing applications in
dev and prod.
 Integrates with Spring Ecosystem like Spring JDBC, Spring ORM, Spring
Data, Spring Security easily by avoiding boilerplate code.
Q4. Mention a few features of Spring Boot.

Few important features of Spring Boot are as follows:

1. Spring CLI – Spring Boot CLI allows you to Groovy for writing Spring boot
application and avoids boilerplate code.
2. Starter Dependency – With the help of this feature, Spring Boot aggregates
common dependencies together and eventually improves productivity
3. Auto-Configuration – The auto-configuration feature of Spring Boot helps in
loading the default configurations according to the project you are working on.
In this way, you can avoid any unnecessary WAR files.
4. Spring Initializer – This is basically a web application, which can create an
internal project structure for you. So, you do not have to manually set up the
structure of the project, instead, you can use this feature.
5. Spring Actuator – This feature provides help while running Spring Boot
applications.
6. Logging and Security – The logging and security feature of Spring Boot,
ensures that all the applications made using Spring Boot are properly secured
without any hassle.

Q5. Explain how to create a Spring Boot application using Maven.

Well, there are various approaches to create a Spring Boot application using maven,
but if I have to name a few, then following are the ways to create a Spring Boot
project/ application using maven:

 Spring Boot CLI

 Spring Starter Project Wizard
 Spring Initializr
 Spring Maven Project

Q6. Mention the possible sources of external configuration.

There is no doubt in the fact that Spring Boot allows the developers to run the same
application in different environments. Well, this is done with the support it provides
for external configuration. It uses environment variables, properties files, command-
line arguments, YAML files, and system properties to mention the required
configuration properties. Also, the @value annotation is used to gain access to the
properties. So, the most possible sources of external configuration are as follows:

 Application Properties – By default, Spring Boot searches for the application

properties file or its YAML file in the current directory, classpath root or config
directory to load the properties.
 Command-line properties – Spring Boot provides command-line arguments
and converts these arguments to properties. Then it adds them to the set of
environment properties.
 Profile-specific properties – These properties are loaded from the
application-{profile}.properties file or its YAML file. This file resides in the
same location as that of the non-specific property files and the{profile}
placeholder refers to an active profile.
Q7. Can you explain what happens in the background when a Spring
Boot Application is “Run as Java Application”?

When a Spring Boot application is executed as “Run as Java application”, then it

automatically launches up the tomcat server as soon as it sees, that you are
developing a web application.

Q8. What are the Spring Boot starters and what are available the
starters?

Spring Boot starters are a set of convenient dependency management providers that
can be used in the application to enable dependencies. These starters, make
development easy and rapid. All the available starters come under the
org.springframework.boot group. Few of the popular starters are as follows:

 spring-boot-starter: – This is the core starter and includes logging, auto-

configuration support, and YAML.
 spring-boot-starter-jdbc – This starter is used for HikariCP connection pool
with JDBC
 spring-boot-starter-web – Is the starter for building web applications, including
RESTful, applications using Spring MVC
 spring-boot-starter-data-jpa – Is the starter to use Spring Data JPA with
Hibernate
 spring-boot-starter-security – Is the starter used for Spring Security
 spring-boot-starter-aop: This starter is used for aspect-oriented programming
with AspectJ and Spring AOP
 spring-boot-starter-test: Is the starter for testing Spring Boot applications

Q9. Explain Spring Actuator and its advantages.

Spring Actuator is a cool feature of Spring Boot with the help of which you can see
what is happening inside a running application. So, whenever you want to debug
your application, and need to analyze the logs you need to understand what is
happening in the application right? In such a scenario, the Spring Actuator provides
easy access to features such as identifying beans, CPU usage, etc. The Spring
Actuator provides a very easy way to access the production-ready REST points and
fetch all kinds of information from the web. These points are secured using Spring
Security’s content negotiation strategy.

Q10. What is Spring Boot dependency management?

Spring Boot dependency management is basically used to manage dependencies

and configuration automatically without you specifying the version for any of that
dependencies.

Q11. Mention the minimum requirements for a Spring boot System.

 Spring Boot 2.1.7.RELEASE
requires

 Java 8 +
 Spring Framework 5.1.9 +

Explicit build support

 Maven 3.3+
 Gradle 4.4+

Servlet Container Support

 Tomcat 9.0 – Servlet Version 4.0

 Jetty 9.4 – Servlet Version 3.1
 Undertow 2.0 – Servlet Version 4.0

Q12. Explain what is thymeleaf and how to use thymeleaf?

Thymeleaf is a server-side Java template engine used for web applications. It aims
to bring natural template for your web application and can integrate well with Spring
Framework and HTML5 Java web applications. To use Thymeleaf, you need to add
the following code in the pom.xml file:

1 <dependency>
2 <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
3 <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
</dependency>
4
Q13. Can we change the port of the embedded Tomcat
server in Spring boot?

Yes, we can change the port of the embedded tomcat server by using the application
properties file. In this file, you have to add a property of “server.port” and assign it to
any port you wish to. For example, if you want to assign it to 8081, then you have to
mention server.port=8081. Once you mention the port number, the application
properties file will be automatically loaded by Spring Boot and the required
configurations will be applied on to the application.

Q14. What is the need for Spring Boot DevTools?

Spring Boot Dev Tools are an elaborated set of tools and aims to make the process
of developing an application easier. If the application runs in the production, then this
module is automatically disabled, repackaging of archives are also excluded by
default. So, the Spring Boot Developer Tools applies properties to the respective
development environments. To include the DevTools, you just have to add the
following dependency into the pom.xml file:

1 <dependency>
2 <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
3 <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
</dependency>
4
Q15. Mention the steps to create a Spring Boot project
using Spring Initializer.

Spring Initializr is a web tool provided by Spring. With the help of this tool, you can
create Spring Boot projects by just providing project details. The following steps
need to be followed to create a Spring Boot project using Spring Initializer:

 Choose the maven project and the required dependencies. Then, fill in the
other required details like Group, Artifact, and then click on Generate Project.
 Once the project is downloaded, extract the project onto your system
 Next, you have to import this project using the import option on the Spring
Tool Suite IDE
 While importing the project, remember that you have to choose the
project type to be Maven and the source project should contain the
pom.xml file.

Once, all the above steps are followed you will see that the Spring Boot project is
created with all the required dependencies.

Spring Boot Interview Questions

Q16. Mention the steps to connect Spring Boot application
to a database using JDBC.

Spring Boot starter projects provide the required libraries to connect the application
with JDBC. So, for example, if you just have to create an application and connect it
with MySQL database, you can follow the below steps:

Step 1: Create a database in MySQL

1 CREATE DATABASE example;

Step 2: Then you have to create a table inside this database.

CREATE TABLE customers(customerid INT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,

1 customername VARCHAR(255));
Step 3: Now, create a Spring Boot project and provide the required details

Step 4: Add the JDBC, MySQL and web dependencies.

Step 5: Once the project is created, you have to configure the database into
application properties

1 spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/example
2 spring.datasource.username=root
3 spring.datasource.password=edureka
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=create-drop
4
Step 6: The main application.java class should have the following code:

1
package com.edureka;
2 import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
3 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
4 @SpringBootApplication
5 public class SampleApplication {
6 public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(SampleApplication.class, args);
7 }
8 }
9
Step 7: Next, you have to create a controller to handle the HTTP requests, by
mentioning the following code:

1
2 package com.edureka;
3 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
4 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate;
5 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
6 @RestController
7 public class JdbcController {
8 @Autowired
9 JdbcTemplate jdbc;
@RequestMapping("/insert")
10 public String index(){
11 jdbc.execute("insert into customers(name)values('Aryya')");
12 return "Data Entry Successful";
13 }
}
14
15
Step 8: Finally, execute this project as a Java application.
Step 9: Next, open the URL (localhost:8080/insert), and you will see the output as
Data Entry Successful. You can also go forward and check if the data is entered into
the table.

Q17. How to enable HTTP/2 support in Spring Boot?

You can enable the HTTP/2 support in Spring Boot by: server.http2.enabled=true

Q18. What are the @RequestMapping and

@RestController annotation in Spring Boot used for?

@RequestMapping @RestController
 This annotation is used to provide the routing
This annotation is used to add the
information and tells to Spring that any HTTP
@ResponseBody and @Controller
request must be mapped to the respective
annotation to the class
method.
To use this annotation, you have to import To use this annotation, you have to import
org.springframework.web. org.springframework.web.
bind.annotation.RequestMapping; bind.annotation.RestController;
Example: Consider you have a method example() which should map with /example
URL.

1
2 package com.edureka;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
3 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
4 @RestController
5 public class SampleController {
6 @RequestMapping("/example")
public String example(){
7
return"Welcome To Edureka";
8 }
9 }
10
Q19. What is Spring Boot CLI and how to execute the
Spring Boot project using boot CLI?

Spring Boot CLI is a tool supported by the official Spring Framework. The steps to
execute a Spring Boot project are as follows:

 Download the CLI tool from the official site and extract the zip file. The bin
folder present in the Spring setup is used to execute the Spring Boot
application.
 Since Spring Boot CLI executes groovy files, you need to create a groovy file
for Spring Boot application. So, to do that, open terminal and change the
current directory to the bin folder. Now, open a groovy file (for example
Sample.groovy)
 In this file create a controller as follows:

@RestController public class Sample {

@RequestMapping("/example")
String index(){
<h1>"Welcome To Edureka"</h1>;
} }
 Then execute the groovy file by mentioning:

1 ./spring run Sample.groovy;

Once, the project is executed go to the URL(localhost:8080:/example) and you will
see the output as Welcome To Edureka

Q20. Mention the differences between JPA and Hibernate.

JPA Hibernate
 Hibernate is an implementation of Java
JPA is a Data Access Abstraction used to
Persistence API and offers benefits of loose
reduce the amount of boilerplate code
coupling

Q21. How can we create a custom endpoint in Spring Boot

Actuator?

To create a custom endpoint in Spring Boot 2.x, you can use the @Endpoint
annotation. Spring Boot also exposes endpoints using @WebEndpointor,
@WebEndpointExtension over HTTP with the help of Spring MVC, Jersey, etc.

Q22. Explain Spring Data.

Spring Data aims to make it easy for the developers to use relational and non-
relational databases, cloud-based data services, and other data access
technologies. So, basically, it makes it easy for data access and still retains the
underlying data.

Q23. What do you understand by auto-configuration in

Spring Boot and how to disable the auto-configuration?

Auto-configuration is used to automatically configure the required configuration for

the application. For example, if you have a data source bean present in the
classpath of the application, then it automatically configures the JDBC template. With
the help of auto-configuration, you can create a Java application in an easy way, as
it automatically configures the required beans, controllers, etc.

To disable the auto-configuration property, you have to exclude attribute

of @EnableAutoConfiguration, in the scenario where you do not want it to be
applied.

1 @EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude={DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class})
If the class is not on the classpath, then to exclude the auto-configuration, you have
to mention the following code:

1 @EnableAutoConfiguration(excludeName={Sample.class})
Apart from this, Spring Boot also provides the facility to exclude list of auto-
configuration classes by using the spring.autoconfigure.exclude property. You
can go forward, and add it either in the application.properties or add multiple classes
with comma-separated.

Q24. What are the differences between

@SpringBootApplication and @EnableAutoConfiguration
annotation?

@SpringBootApplication @EnableAutoConfiguration
Used to enable auto-configuration and
Used in the main class or bootstrap class
component scanning in your project
It is a combination of @Configuration,
It is a combination of @Configuration and
@ComponentScan and
@ComponentScan annotations
@EnableAutoConfiguration annotations.
Q25. What are the steps to deploy Spring Boot web
applications as JAR and WAR files?

To deploy a Spring Boot web application, you just have to add the following plugin in
the pom.xml file:

1 <plugin>
2 <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
3 <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
4
By using the above plugin, you will get a JAR executing the package phase. This
JAR will contain all the necessary libraries and dependencies required. It will also
contain an embedded server. So, you can basically run the application like an
ordinary JAR file.
Note: The packaging element in the pom.xml file must be set to jar to build a JAR
file as below:

1 <packaging>jar</packaging>
Similarly, if you want to build a WAR file, then you will mention

1 <packaging>war</packaging>
Q.26 Can you give an example for ReadOnly as true in
Transaction management?

Example for ReadOnly as TRUE in transaction management could be as follows:

Consider a scenario, where you have to read data from the database. For example,
let us say you have a customer database, and you want to read the customer details
such as customerID, and customername. To do that, you will set read-only on the
transaction as we do not want to check for the changes in the entities.

Q27. Can you explain how to deploy to a different server

with Spring Boot?

To deploy a different server with Spring Boot, follow the below steps:

 Generate a WAR from the project

 Then, deploy the WAR file onto your favorite server

Note: The steps to deploy the WAR file on the server is dependent on the server you
choose.

Q28: What is the best way to expose custom application

configuration with Spring Boot?
 One way to expose the custom application configuration in Spring Boot is by using
the @Value annotation. But, the only problem with this annotation is that all the
configuration values will be distributed throughout the application. Instead, you can
use a centralized approach.

By centralized approach, I mean that you can define a configuration component

using the @ConfigurationProperties as follows:

1 @Component
2 @ConfigurationProperties("example")
3 public class SampleConfiguration {
4 private int number;
private boolean value;
5
private String message;
6
According to the above snippet, the values configured in application.properties will
be as follows:

1 example.number: 100
2 example.value: true
3 example.message: Dynamic Message
Q29. Can we create a non-web application in Spring Boot?

Yes, we can create a non-web application by removing the web dependencies from
the classpath along with changing the way Spring Boot creates the application
context.

Q 30. What are the steps to connect an external database

like MySQL or Oracle?

To connect an external database, you have to follow the below steps:

 Start by adding the dependency for MySQL Connector to pom.xml

 Then remove H2 Dependency from pom.xml
 Now, set up your MySQL database and configure your connection to the
MySQL database
 Restart your project

Spring Boot Interview Questions

Q31. Mention the advantages of the YAML file than
Properties file and the different ways to load YAML file in
Spring boot.

The advantages of the YAML file than a properties file is that the data is stored in a
hierarchical format. So, it becomes very easy for the developers to debug if there is
an issue. The SpringApplication class supports the YAML file as an alternative to
properties whenever you use the SnakeYAML library on your classpath. The
different ways to load a YAML file in Spring Boot is as follows:
  Use YamlMapFactoryBean to load YAML as a Map
 Use YamlPropertiesFactoryBean to load YAML as Properties

Q32. How is Hibernate chosen as the default

implementation for JPA without any configuration?

When we use the Spring Boot Auto Configuration, automatically the spring-boot-
starter-data-jpa dependency gets added to the pom.xml file. Now, since this
dependency has a transitive dependency on JPA and Hibernate, Spring Boot
automatically auto-configures Hibernate as the default implementation for JPA,
whenever it sees Hibernate in the classpath.

Q33. What do you understand by Spring Data REST?

Spring Data REST is used to expose the RESTful resources around Spring Data
repositories. Consider the following example:

1 @RepositoryRestResource(collectionResourceRel = "sample", path = "sample")

2 public interface SampleRepository
3 extends CustomerRepository<sample, Long> {
Now, to expose the REST services, you can use the POST method in the following
way:

1 {
2 "customername": "Rohit"
3 }
Response Content

1 {
2 "customername": "Rohit"
"_links": {
3 "self": {
4 "href": "<a href="http://localhost:8080/sample/1">http://localhost:8080/sample/
5 1</a>"
6 },
"sample": {
7
"href": "<a href="http://localhost:8080/sample/1">http://localhost:8080/sample/
8 1</a>"
9 }
10 }
Observe that the response content contains the href of the newly created resource.

Q34. What is the difference between RequestMapping and

GetMapping?

The @GetMapping is a composed annotation that acts as a shortcut

for @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET). Both these methods
support the consumes. The consume options are :

consumes = “text/plain”
consumes = {“text/plain”, “application/*”}
Q35. In which layer, should the boundary of a transaction
start?

The boundary of the transaction should start from the Service Layer since the logic
for the business transaction is present in this layer itself.

Q36. How does path=”sample”,

collectionResourceRel=”sample” work with Spring Data
Rest?

1 @RepositoryRestResource(collectionResourceRel = "sample", path = "sample")

2 public interface SampleRepository extends
3 PagingAndSortingRepository<Sample, Long>

 path – This section is used to mention the segment under which the resource
is to be exported.
 collectionResourceRel – This value is used to generate links to the collection
resource.

Q37. Explain how to register a custom auto-configuration.

In order to register an auto-configuration class, you have to mention the fully-

qualified name under the @EnableAutoConfiguration key META-INF/spring.
factories file. Also, if we build the with maven, then this file should be placed in the
resources/META-INT directory.

Q38. How do you Configure Log4j for logging?

Since Spring Boot supports Log4j2 for logging a configuration, you have to exclude
Logback and include Log4j2 for logging. This can be only done if you are using the
starters project.

Q39. Mention the differences between WAR and embedded

containers

WAR Embedded Containers

WAR benefits a considerable measure from Only one component of Spring Boot and is
Spring Boot utilized during improvements
Q40. What do you think is the need for Profiles?

Profiles are used to provide a way to segregate the different parts of the application
configuration and make it available for various environments. So, basically, any
@Component or a @Configuration can be marked with a @Profile to limit as it is
loaded. Consider you have multiple environments,

 Dev
 QA
 Stage
  Production

Now, let’s say, you want to have different application configuration in each of the
environments, you can use profiles to have different application configurations for
different environments. So, basically, Spring and Spring Boot provide features
through which you can specify:

 The active profile for a specific environment

 The configuration of various environments for various profiles.

Q41. What are the steps to add a custom JS code with

Spring Boot?

The steps to add a custom JS code with Spring Boot are as follows:

 Now, create a folder and name it static under the resources folder
 In this folder, you can put the static content in that folder

Note: Just in case, the browser throws an unauthorized error, you either disable the
security or search for the password in the log file, and eventually pass it in the
request header.

Q42. How to instruct an auto-configuration to back off

when a bean exists?

To instruct an auto-configuration class to back off when a bean exists, you have to
use the @ConditionalOnMissingBean annotation. The attributes of this annotation
are as follows:

 value: This attribute stores the type of beans to be checked

 name: This attribute stores the name of beans to be checked

Q43. Why is Spring Data REST not recommended in real-

world applications?

Spring Data REST is not recommended in real-world applications as you are

exposing your database entities directly as REST Services. While designing RESTful
services, the two most important things that we consider is the domain model and
the consumers. But, while using Spring Data REST, none of these parameters are
considered. The entities are directly exposed. So, I would just say, you can use
Spring Data REST, for the initial evolution of the project.

Q44. What is the error you see if H2 is not in the

classpath?

If H2 is not present in the classpath, then you see the following error:

Cannot determine embedded database driver class for database type NONE
To resolve this error, add H2 to the pom.xml file, and restart your server.
The following code snippet can be added to add the dependency:

1 <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/mysql/mysql-connector-java -->

2 <dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
3 <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
4 <version>8.0.14</version>
5 </dependency>

Q46. Mention the dependencies needed to start up a JPA

Application and connect to database with Spring Boot?

The dependencies are needed to start up a JPA Application and connect to

database mysql with Spring Boot

 web starter
 mysql
 data JPA starter
 To include the dependencies refer to the following code:

1
2 <dependency>
3 <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
4 </dependency>
5 <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/mysql/mysql-connector-java -->
6 <dependency>
7 <groupId>mysql</groupId>
8 <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>8.0.14</version>
9 </dependency><dependency>
10 <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
11 <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
12 </dependency>
13

1) What is Spring Boot?

Spring Boot is a Spring module which provides RAD (Rapid Application
Development) feature to Spring framework.

It is used to create stand alone spring based application that you can just
run because it needs very little spring configuration.

2) What are the advantages of Spring Boot?

o Create stand-alone Spring applications that can be started using

java -jar.
 o Embed Tomcat, Jetty or Undertow directly. You don't need to deploy
WAR files.
o It provides opinionated 'starter' POMs to simplify your Maven
configuration.
o It automatically configure Spring whenever possible.

3) What are the features of Spring Boot?

o Web Development
o SpringApplication
o Application events and listeners
o Admin features

4) How to create Spring Boot application using Maven?

There are multiple approaches to create Spring Boot project. We can use
any of the following approach to create application.

o Spring Maven Project

o Spring Starter Project Wizard
o Spring Initializr
o Spring Boot CLI

5) How to create Spring Boot project using Spring Initializer?

It is a web tool which is provided by Spring on official site. You can create
Spring Boot project by providing project details.

6) How to create Spring Boot project using boot CLI?

It is a tool which you can download from the official site of Spring
Framework. Here, we are explaining steps.

7) How to create simple Spring Boot application?

To create an application. We are using STS (Spring Tool Suite) IDE and it
includes the various steps that are explaining in steps.

8) What are the Spring Boot Annotations?

The @RestController is a stereotype annotation. It adds @Controller and @ResponseBody
annotations to the class. We need to import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation
package in our file, in order to implement it.

9) What is Spring Boot dependency management?

Spring Boot manages dependencies and configuration automatically. You don't need to
specify version for any of that dependencies.

Spring Boot upgrades all dependencies automatically when you upgrade

Spring Boot.

10) What are the Spring Boot properties?

Spring Boot provides various properties which can be specified inside our
project's application.properties file. These properties have default
values and you can set that inside the properties file. Properties are used
to set values like: server-port number, database connection configuration
etc.

11) What are the Spring Boot Starters?

Starters are a set of convenient dependency descriptors which we can
include in our application.

Spring Boot provides built-in starters which makes development easier

and rapid. For example, if we want to get started using Spring and JPA for
database access, just include the spring-boot-starter-data-
jpa dependency in your project.

12) What is Spring Boot Actuator?

Spring Boot provides actuator to monitor and manage our application.
Actuator is a tool which has HTTP endpoints. when application is pushed
to production, you can choose to manage and monitor your application
using HTTP endpoints.

5) How to connect Spring Boot to the database using JPA?

Spring Boot provides spring-boot-starter-data-jpa starter to connect
Spring application with relational database efficiently. You can use it into
project POM (Project Object Model) file.

16) How to connect Spring Boot application to database using

JDBC?
Spring Boot provides starter and libraries for connecting to our application
with JDBC. Here, we are creating an application which connects with Mysql
database. It includes the following steps to create and setup JDBC with
Spring Boot.

18) What is @RequestMapping annotation in Spring Boot?

The @RequestMapping annotation is used to provide routing
information. It tells to the Spring that any HTTP request should map to the
corresponding method. We need to import
org.springframework.web.annotation package in our file.

19) How to create Spring Boot application using Spring Starter

Project Wizard?
There is one more way to create Spring Boot project in STS (Spring Tool
Suite). Creating project by using IDE is always a convenient way. Follow
the following steps in order to create a Spring Boot Application by using
this wizard.

17) What is @RestController annotation in Spring Boot?

The @RestController is a stereotype annotation. It adds @Controller and
@ResponseBody annotations to the class. We need to import
org.springframework.web.bind.annotation package in our file, in order to
implement it.

20) Spring Vs Spring Boot?

Spring is a web application framework based on Java. It provides tools and
libraries to create a complete cutomized web application.

Wheras Spring Boot is a spring module which is used to create spring

application project that can just run.