What is new in Spring Boot 2
Upasana | May 20, 2019 | 2 min read | 104 views | Spring Boot 2
Whats new in Spring Boot 2
Here are Spring Boot 2 highlights:
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Spring boot 2 is liberated from legacy baggage of deprecated Java releases. Java 8 is the minimum baseline, with Java 9 support. Under the hood Spring Boot 2 uses Spring 5.
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Reactive web programming support with Spring Webflux. Find out more here
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Auto-configuration and starter POMs for reactive Spring Data Cassandra, MongoDB, Couchbase and Redis.
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Supports embedded Netty, along with HTTP/2 support for Tomcat, Undertow and Jetty.
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Kotlin us supported in Spring Boot 2, along with Junit 5. Now you can write Spring Boot 2 application from scratch in Kotlin. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/spring-boot-restful.html
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A brand new actuator architecture, with support for Spring MVC, WebFlux and Jersey.
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Simplified security auto-configuration.
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Uses Spring Framework 5 under the hood.
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Gradle 4 required, works well with Gradle 5.
You can head to https://start.spring.io/ to start creating a new Spring Boot 2 based project.
Migrating from older versions
This migration guide can help if you are planning to upgrade from Spring Boot 1.5 to 2.x:
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