Problem with many of those Spring Boot Starter is that they include a lot of dependencies you might not even use. It gets even worse when you also use an alternative start package. For example spring-boot-starter-jetty next to your spring-boot-starter-web. If you don't exclude spring-boot-starter-tomcat from spring-boot-starter-web you have even more dependency cruft.
The way Spring organized the Spring Boot packages you basically have two huge packages which have a lot of optional dependencies which get auto-magically activated when you have an other dependency included (this is all in spring-boot-autoconfigure). Those starter packages don't contain any code. If spring-boot-autoconfigure was split up in small packages for each supported library, then it would end result would be much smaller.
Another popular obese library is Google's Guava. As a library it's poorly designed, and also quite a dependency hell with their really active removal of deprecated features. The library itself is a massive 2.7MiB. In most cases people only use a really small subset of this library.
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Problem with many of those Spring Boot Starter is that they include a lot of dependencies you might not even use. It gets even worse when you also use an alternative start package. For example
spring-boot-starter-jettynext to yourspring-boot-starter-web. If you don't excludespring-boot-starter-tomcatfromspring-boot-starter-webyou have even more dependency cruft.The way Spring organized the Spring Boot packages you basically have two huge packages which have a lot of optional dependencies which get auto-magically activated when you have an other dependency included (this is all in
spring-boot-autoconfigure). Those starter packages don't contain any code. Ifspring-boot-autoconfigurewas split up in small packages for each supported library, then it would end result would be much smaller.Another popular obese library is Google's Guava. As a library it's poorly designed, and also quite a dependency hell with their really active removal of deprecated features. The library itself is a massive 2.7MiB. In most cases people only use a really small subset of this library.