How Spring Boot auto-configuration works

In this post, we���ll create a basic Spring Boot application that includes the Web dependency. Then, we���ll analyze it to see how we got an embedded Tomcat web server in our application. This way, we���ll get to know how the magic, or better the auto-configuration, works in Spring Boot.

Table of Contents Creating a basic Spring Boot application The promise: an embedded Tomcat server Auto-configuration and the Tomcat embedded server Finding Tomcat The Spring Boot Autoconfigure module Web...