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In my previous post on Spring Boot Annotations, we have seen commonly

used Spring, Spring Boot Annotations. In this post lets explore the
commonly used Spring, Spring Boot maven starter dependencies, classes
and interfaces(excluding annotations).

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Spring Boot Starters, Classes, interfaces

As known, we can start using Spring, Spring Boot in Java application, by

adding related Spring, Spring Boot starter dependencies in pom.xml(for
Maven Projects).

Below are most commonly used Spring Boot dependencies.

a) spring-boot-starter-web — includes Spring Core, MVC, REST API related

dependencies, including Apache Tomcat Web Server
b) spring-boot-starter-data-jpa — includes Hibernate ORM and related

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Spring Boot functionality to interact with RDBMS databases

c) spring-boot-starter-validation — provides validation related functionality
d) spring-boot-starter-test — provides Test related functionality
e) spring-boot-starter-aop — provides Aspect Oriented programming
f) spring-boot-starter-security — provides Authentication, Authorization,
Security Filters
g) spring-boot-starter-actuator — provides actuator which is useful in
remote health monitoring of running Spring Boot application
h) spring-boot-devtools — provides remote debugging, automatic live reload
of project, whenever source code changes are saved(this saves development
time, by avoiding manual restart of running project)

i) spring-boot-starter-webflux — Used to develop reactive, non-blocking

REST API end points

There are many other such Spring boot starter dependencies, for example
for interacting with Mongo DB, Kafka Messaging, etc…

A new Spring boot application can be created by

1. visiting Spring Initializr(https://start.spring.io/), and selecting required

dependencies(i..e starter packages), and download sample Project, to

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which developers can add required business logic.

2. STS(Spring Tool Suite) provides default support to create Spring Boot

application by adding required dependencies, such as above. For this,
other IDEs such as Eclipse, Intellij needs appropriate plugin to be
installed.

3. other way is, such starter dependencies can be added manually, to a

Maven project.

Spring Boot Classes, interfaces: Once starter dependencies such as above

are added, Spring Boot framework can be used in your Applications either by

a) specifying appropriate Spring Boot Annotations(these we have explored in

my previous blog post)

b) using Spring Boot classes or interfaces(commonly used Spring boot

classes or interfaces are mentioned below)

c) using Configurations in application.properties(I will be briefing this in my

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next posts)

Lets explore Spring, Spring Boot’s classes or interfaces

BeanFactory & ApplicationContext — These classes are generally used to

specify Configuration classes and to explicitly request creation of a bean,
these both classes are bit rarely used(directly), in application development.

ResponseEntity<> — a Generic class, which bundles the HTTP response sent

back to Client. With ResponseEntity you can specify

a. Http status code

b. Http Headers

c. Response Body

CommandLineRunner — interface with run( ) method declaration —

override run( ) with functionality which need to be executed, immediately
after Spring Container is ready.

UriBuilder — to create flexible urls along with Path Variables, Query

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Parameters. These Urls are used, to further invoke REST APIs, from Spring
Boot Application.

CrudRepository — interface with methods declared, that facilitates

application to interact with any RDBMS database to perform CRUD
operations

PagingandSortingRepository — interface which is derived from

CrudRepository, and additionally provides method declarations for paging
and sorting related functionality

JpaRepository — interface which is derived from CrudReposiotory,

additionally provides method declarations for Paging and sorting related
functionality, and batch related operations

Pageable, Page, Sort — classes or interfaces which lets to customize Sorting

and Paging functionality, such as ascending, descending, page size, sort
based on multiple criteria, etc…

WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter — derived class of this class, is used to

specify Security related Configurations

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AuthenticationManagerBuilder — used to specify source of Authentication

details, type of Authentication source, encryption algorithm.

SecurityContext, SecurityContextHolder — SecurityContext class holds

details of currently authenticated(or logged in) User. And
SecurityContextHolder is helper class to provide us SecurityContext.

HttpSecurity — used to specify rules to restrict access of URLs or URL

patterns, Security Filter class(es), etc…

UserDetails,UserDetailsService — UserDetails stores details of currently

logged in User. UserDetailsService provides us UserDetails

RestTemplate — to consume REST API end points exposed by other

Microservices of the Application or external sources. RestTemplate is
blocking in nature, use WebClient to develop reactive, non blocking client.

DataSource — holds details of a data source such as a database, with which

application interacts

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MockMvc — MockMvc is a utility class that lets us send mock HTTP requests,
for Testing REST API end points.

There are many more classes and interfaces provided by Spring & Spring
Boot, in this post I have mentioned most commonly used classes and
interfaces, only.

I will be adding few important code snippets showing usage of above classes
or interfaces, in second part of this post, shortly.

My other Blog Posts:

Spring, Spring Boot Annotations Cheat sheet

As known there are a number of Annotations provided by Java’s
Spring, Spring Boot Framework, and it would be quite…
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How to create Custom Java Collection by extending from an

existing Collection class
Though Core Java provides a number of builtin Collections such as
ArrayList, LinkedList, HashSet, etc…., sometimes it…
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