Spring.Boot up your development

This document discusses Spring Boot, a framework for creating stand-alone, production-grade Spring based applications that can be "just run". Spring Boot focuses on using sensible default configurations and automatic configuration so that developers can focus on the business problem rather than infrastructure. It provides features like embedded Tomcat/Jetty servers, auto configuration of Spring and third party libraries, actuator endpoints for monitoring apps, and works with properties files, environment variables and JNDI. The document also covers Spring configuration, annotations, issues, Groovy, environment configuration, initialization, auto-configuration classes, properties, and the health and metrics endpoints of Spring Boot Actuator.