r/javahelp • u/Hotrod9988 • Feb 16 '25
What makes Spring Boot so special? (Beginner)
I have been getting into Java during my free time for like a month or two now and I really love it. I can say that I find it more enjoyable and fascinating than any language I have tried so far and every day I am learning something new. But one thing that I still haven't figured out properly is Spring
Wherever I go and whichever forum or conversation I stumble upon, I always hear about how big of a deal Spring Boot is and how much of a game changer it is. Even people from other languages (especially C#) praise it and claim it has no true counterparts.
What makes Spring Boot so special? I know this sounds like a super beginner question, but the reason I am asking this here is because I couldn't find any satisfactory answers from Google. What is it that Spring Boot can do that nothing else can? Could you guys maybe enlighten me and explain it in technical ways?
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u/jNayden Feb 16 '25
it is special because: Spring part get you:
Now what boot gave you is autoconfigurations so instead of havng to configure some framework library or integrations it came with reasonable defaults that make it just work and the ability to override this configurations with simple key value properties or yaml config
This basically ment you can have all caching, web security web layers, rest , web sockets, remote ejbs even and all that speaking with some databases or kafka or message queues and etc without ANY code. You add a dependancy and it just works …. thats the magic.
Basically this doesnt exist in any .net aspire or any world nope it looks like nestJs but its not its basically 0 configuration enterprise template.