SpringBoot Maven Dependancies

spring BOOT-starter-parent – This is the parent POM. It will provide the useful Maven defaults.

spring-boot-starter-web – Since we are developing a REST service, we will need spring web based dependencies. The web starter will also set up an embedded servlet container.

spring-boot-starter-test – This will add spring-test module and test dependencies like JUnit, Hamcrest and Mockito.

spring-boot-starter – The core Spring Boot starter, including auto-configuration support, logging and YAML

spring-boot-starter-tomcat – provides an embedded servlet container

spring-boot-autoconfigure – Spring Boot figures out how to configure based on the jar dependencies that you have added.

spring-boot-starter-validation – Adds hibernate validator, an implementation of bean validation API

jackson-databind – JSON data binding

spring-web and spring-webmvc – spring web modules