Spring boot starter parent in pom maven repo

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The parent pom spring-boot-starter-parent, contains the full dependencies (mvc, cache, jpa) and commons properties to maintain dependencies versions in a good consistency, to be used in our project or submodules.

      <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
     </parent>

We can manage the following things with the help of parent pom:

  • Configuration: It maintains Java Version and Other Properties
  • Dependency Management: It maintains Version of dependencies
  • Default Plugin Configuration

It inherits dependency management from spring-boot-dependencies.

We can add some starters in your pom.xml depending on our need like web, jpa, batch etc.

<parent>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
       <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
 
<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>