The following snippet shows the dependencies that are declared:

<dependencies>

   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
   </dependency>

   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
   </dependency>

   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
   </dependency>

    <!-- Test dependency and DEV Tools removed for brevity-->

</dependencies>

A few other important observations are as follows:

• The packaging for this component is .jar.
• org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-parent is declared as the parent POM.
• <java.version>1.8</java.version>: The Java version is 1.8.
• Spring Boot Maven Plugin (org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin) is configured as a plugin.