It is necessary for software development processes to be faster, more accurate, and more robust. Software teams are asked to develop quick prototypes for showcasing the application's features to prospective clients. The same applies to production-grade applications. The following are a few areas where software architects focus on to improve the effectiveness of development teams:

• Use the right set of tools, which includes frameworks, IDEs, and build tools
• Reduce code clutter
• Reduce the amount of time spent writing repetitive code
• Spend the majority of the time implementing business features

Let's think for a moment. Why are we discussing this? The reason is that this is the foundation for Spring Boot. These thoughts are the founding stones for the creation of any framework or tool that helps teams to improve their productivity. Spring Boot is found with exactly the same reason—to improve productivity!

With Spring Boot, it becomes easy to create production-grade applications that are powered by the Spring Framework. It also makes it easy to create production-ready services with minimal challenges. Spring Boot helps new and existing users get to their productive tasks quickly by taking an opinionated view of the Spring Framework. Spring Boot is a tool that facilitates creating a standalone Java application, which can be run using the java -jar command, or a web application, which can be deployed to web servers. The Spring Boot setup is bundled with command-line tools to run Spring programs.

The major goals of Spring Boot are:

• To gain an extremely fast experience to get started with Spring-powered projects
• Broad accessibility
• Major support from out-of-the-box configuration
• Flexibility to deviate from Spring default as the need may arise

• That it does not generate any code
• That it does not require XML configuration

Along with previously listed primary features, Spring Boot also provides support for non-functional features, listed as follows:

• Support for versioning and configuration for widely known and used frameworks
• Support for application security
• Support for monitoring application health check parameters
• Support for monitoring of performance metrics
• Support for externalized configurations

Though Spring Boot provides defaults for the primary and non-functional features, it is flexible enough to allow developers to use the frameworks, servers, and tools of their choice.