Interactive demo showing how Spring Boot manages dependencies and versions
Spring Boot Dependency Manager is a powerful feature that automatically handles the complex task of managing dependencies and their versions in your Spring Boot applications. It eliminates the need to manually specify versions for most dependencies by providing a curated set of dependency versions that are known to work well together.
The dependency manager uses a Bill of Materials (BOM) approach, where Spring Boot maintains a comprehensive list of dependency versions that have been tested for compatibility. This ensures that your application uses consistent, stable versions across all dependencies, reducing the risk of version conflicts and compatibility issues.
Spring Boot Starter Projects are pre-configured dependency templates that provide a quick way to add specific functionality to your application. Each starter is essentially a collection of commonly used libraries and configurations bundled together for a particular use case or technology stack.
For example, spring-boot-starter-web includes everything you need for building web applications, including Spring MVC, Tomcat, and JSON processing libraries. This eliminates the need to manually add and configure dozens of individual dependencies.
Starters follow a naming convention of spring-boot-starter-* and automatically pull in their transitive dependencies with compatible versions, making it incredibly easy to get started with new technologies in your Spring Boot project.
Click on starter dependencies to see how they resolve their transitive dependencies:
See how different Spring Boot versions manage dependency versions:
Visual representation of resolved dependencies:
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