Spring Boot handles a surprising amount of the setup behind a Java application. You can start with a web application, connect Spring Data JPA to a database, add validation or security, and bring in other Spring projects as the application needs them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So which Spring Boot projects can help you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An employee management API is enough to work with controllers, services, repositories, and JPA. Add departments, and you have relationships to model. Add users and suddenly authentication and authorisation matter. If the same records are being read repeatedly, caching becomes worth considering. If an order needs to notify another service without holding up the request, messaging gives you a different way to handle that work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can keep taking that same backend further. Testing, API documentation, file handling, Kafka, microservices, resilience, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring each introduce a different problem to solve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is what these 15 Spring Boot projects focus on. You can start with the REST foundations, add the concerns that make sense for the application, or follow the complete sequence through to a distributed backend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the setup, Spring Initializr<\/a> gives you a starting project and lets you choose the dependencies you need. If you want to place Spring Boot in the larger Java ecosystem first, the Spring vs Spring Boot<\/a> can help you with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, let\u2019s begin with the projects!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n