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Spring Boot Architecture

Maddy on November 14, 2021

Spring Boot is a more user-friendly version of the Spring Framework. With Spring Boot, you can create autonomous and easy to run applications. WH...

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Furer Alexander • Nov 15 '21 • Edited

I stopped reading after this paragraph :

Spring Boot Architecture has four layers:

Presentation Layer
Business Layer
Persistence Layer
Database Layer

You missed the whole idea of Spring boot !!!

Maddy • Nov 15 '21

Thank you for your comment. What did I miss, precisely?

Furer Alexander • Nov 15 '21 • Edited

You missed the whole point of Spring boot.
It's not mvc + persistency.
This is about auto-configuration of almost each and every existing technology /stack. From simple rest service with embedded tomcat or netty to the complex application (messaging middleware, scheduling, retry, load balancing, caching, service registration and discovery, various communication layers, logging.. Should I continue?

Maddy • Nov 15 '21

Sure, you are more than welcome to continue. 😁

I agree with your comment, and I'm fully aware that there is more than just "mvc + persistency".

For this article, I chose to focus on giving an overall understanding of the Spring Boot Architecture.

I blog frequently and I'll cover more Spring Boot topics in my next articles (this is my very first article about Spring Boot).

Also, let's not forget that in software engineering you don't need to know everything, but just enough to get you going.

We start small and we learn more as we go. 😊

Furer Alexander • Nov 15 '21 • Edited

overall understanding of the Spring Boot Architecture is about files named spring.factories. No more nor less.

Maddy • Nov 16 '21

Thanks @jvmlet 😁

Maddy • Jan 31 '22

Darling, I'm glad you find this article helpful! 😊

Nermin Karapandzic • Nov 28 '23

Huh? What you described is maybe an architecture that you use when working on your apps, spring boot has nothing to do with this.
You can have the same architecture using just spring...
Spring boot is about autoconfiguration and that's all it is.