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Spring Boot
Stand-alone, production-grade Spring based applications that you can just run
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What Spring Boot does
Spring Boot is an open source Java framework for building production-ready applications, maintained by the Spring Projects organization.
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- Requires Java 17 as the minimum version for Spring Boot 4.1.0, per docs.spring.io/spring-boot/system-requirements.html (Aug 2026); older Java runtimes are not supported
- Requires Spring Framework 7.0.8 or above and Gradle 8.14+ or Maven 3.6.3+, per Spring's own system requirements page, so older toolchains must be upgraded first
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