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Spring Boot Interview Questions
1) What is Spring Boot?
Spring Boot is a Spring module which provides RAD (Rapid Application
Development) feature to Spring framework.
It is used to create stand alone spring based application that you can just
run because it needs very little spring configuration.
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2) What are the advantages of Spring Boot?
Create stand-alone Spring applications that can be started using
java -jar.
Embed Tomcat, Jetty or Undertow directly. You don't need to deploy
WAR files.
It provides opinionated 'starter' POMs to simplify your Maven
configuration.
It automatically configure Spring whenever possible.
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3) What are the features of Spring Boot?
Web Development
SpringApplication
Application events and listeners
Admin features
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4) How to create Spring Boot application using Maven?
There are multiple approaches to create Spring Boot project. We can use
any of the following approach to create application.
Spring Maven Project
Spring Starter Project Wizard
Spring Initializr
Spring Boot CLI
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5) How to create Spring Boot project using Spring
Initializer?
It is a web tool which is provided by Spring on official site. You can create
Spring Boot project by providing project details.
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6) How to create Spring Boot project using boot CLI?
It is a tool which you can download from the official site of Spring
Framework. Here, we are explaining steps.
Download the CLI tool from official site and For more information click
here.
7) How to create simple Spring Boot application?
To create an application. We are using STS (Spring Tool Suite) IDE and it
includes the various steps that are explaining in steps.
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8) What are the Spring Boot Annotations?
The @RestController is a stereotype annotation. It adds @Controller and
@ResponseBody annotations to the class. We need to import
org.springframework.web.bind.annotation package in our file, in order to
implement it.
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9) What is Spring Boot dependency management?
Spring Boot manages dependencies and configuration automatically. You
don't need to specify version for any of that dependencies.
Spring Boot upgrades all dependencies automatically when you upgrade
Spring Boot.
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10) What are the Spring Boot properties?
Spring Boot provides various properties which can be specified inside
our project's application.properties file. These properties have default
values and you can set that inside the properties file. Properties are used
to set values like: server-port number, database connection configuration
etc.
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11) What are the Spring Boot Starters?
Starters are a set of convenient dependency descriptors which we can
include in our application.
Spring Boot provides built-in starters which makes development easier
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and rapid. For example, if we want to get started using Spring and JPA
for database access, just include the spring-boot-starter-data-jpa
dependency in your project.
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12) What is Spring Boot Actuator?
Spring Boot provides actuator to monitor and manage our application.
Actuator is a tool which has HTTP endpoints. when application is pushed
to production, you can choose to manage and monitor your application
using HTTP endpoints.
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13) What is thymeleaf?
It is a server side Java template engine for web application. It's main goal
is to bring elegant natural templates to your web application.
It can be integrate with Spring Framework and ideal for HTML5 Java web
applications.
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14) How to use thymeleaf?
In order to use Thymeleaf we must add it into our pom.xml file like:
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15) How to connect Spring Boot to the database using
JPA?
Spring Boot provides spring-boot-starter-data-jpa starter to connect
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Spring application with relational database efficiently. You can use it into
project POM (Project Object Model) file.
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16) How to connect Spring Boot application to database
using JDBC?
Spring Boot provides starter and libraries for connecting to our
application with JDBC. Here, we are creating an application which
connects with Mysql database. It includes the following steps to create
and setup JDBC with Spring Boot.
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17) What is @RestController annotation in Spring Boot?
The @RestController is a stereotype annotation. It adds @Controller and
@ResponseBody annotations to the class. We need to import
org.springframework.web.bind.annotation package in our file, in order to
implement it.
For more information click here.
18) What is @RequestMapping annotation in Spring
Boot?
The @RequestMapping annotation is used to provide routing
information. It tells to the Spring that any HTTP request should map to
the corresponding method. We need to import
org.springframework.web.annotation package in our file.
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19) How to create Spring Boot application using Spring
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Starter Project Wizard?
There is one more way to create Spring Boot project in STS (Spring Tool
Suite). Creating project by using IDE is always a convenient way. Follow
the following steps in order to create a Spring Boot Application by using
this wizard.
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20) Spring Vs Spring Boot?
Spring is a web application framework based on Java. It provides tools
and libraries to create a complete cutomized web application.
Wheras Spring Boot is a spring module which is used to create spring
application project that can just run.
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