Spring Boot Starters

Starters are curated dependency bundles — add ONE starter and get every library a feature typically needs, at compatible versions.

<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>

spring-boot-starter-web — MVC, embedded Tomcat, Jackson for JSON
spring-boot-starter-data-jpa — Spring Data JPA + Hibernate
spring-boot-starter-security — Spring Security defaults
spring-boot-starter-test — JUnit, Mockito, AssertJ, Spring Test