Spring Boot Application

Spring Boot is a rapid application development platform. It uses various components of spring, but has additional niceties like the ability to package your application as a runnable jar, which includes an embedded tomcat (or jetty) server.
Spring boot is based on spring framework, too and provides the extension configuration on convention model.

1. It reduces the need to write a lot of configuration and boilerplate code.
2. It has an opinionated view on spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum effort.
3. Easy to create standalone applications with embedded Tomcat/Jetty.
4. Provides metrics, health checks and externalized configuration.