The @SpringBootApplication annotation Example in Java + Spring Boot
Hello guys, today, we'll learn about the @SpringBootApplication annotation, one of the most important annotations from popular Spring Boot framework, which has changed the way Java developers use Spring framework for writing Java applications. In this article, I'll explain to you the meaning of @SpringBootApplication and it's used in a simple Spring Boot application. We use @SpringBootApplication annotation on our Application or Main class to enable a host of features e.g. Java-based Spring configuration, component scanning, and in particular for enabling Spring Boot's auto-configuration feature. If you have been using Spring Boot for a long time then you know that earlier we need to annotate our Application class or Main class with quite a lot of annotations to start with like @Configuration to enable Java-based configuration, @ComponentScan to enable component scanning, and @EnableAutoConfiguration to enable Spring Boot's auto-configuration feature, but now you c...