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What is the difference between using Spring Boot Starter and Spring Boot Starter Parent in project configuration?

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Spring Boot Starter and Spring Boot Starter Parent are different concepts in the configuration of a Maven project on Spring Boot.

Spring Boot Starter is a set of dependencies that simplifies the inclusion of necessary libraries for a specific functionality. For example, spring-boot-starter-web includes all the necessary libraries for creating a web application.
Spring Boot Starter Parent is a parent POM (Project Object Model) in Maven that sets common configurations for the project: plugin versions, dependency management, build properties, etc. It helps avoid version conflicts and simplifies configuration.

In other words, Starter Parent is the base project configuration, and Starter is a set of libraries for specific tasks.

Example in pom.xml:

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>2.7.0</version>
</parent>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

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