Difference between Spring and Spring Boot

Question

There are many people who advised me to use Spring Boot instead of Spring to develop REST web services. I want to know what exactly the difference between the two is?

Answer 1

• For Spring Framework, you need to configure your project using XML configuration or Java configuration.

  But for Spring Boot, these are preconfigured according to Spring team's view for rapid development. That is why Spring Boot is said to be an "opinionated view" of Spring Framework. It follows Convention over Configuration design paradigm.

  Note: These configurations include view resolvers for MVC, transaction managers, way of locating container managed beans (Spring beans) and many more. And of course you can override any of these preconfigurations according to your need.

• Spring Boot supports embedded servlet containers like Tomcat, Jetty or Undertow to create standalone applications, which Spring Framework doesn't.