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> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId> <scope>runtime</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> </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