What are the advantages of using Spring Boot compared to the traditional Spring Framework?

Spring Boot simplifies the development of applications based on the Spring Framework through automatic configuration and ready-made templates. The main advantages of Spring Boot compared to traditional Spring:

• Automatic configuration: Spring Boot automatically selects settings depending on the connected libraries, reducing project setup time.
• Embedded application server: you can run the application as a standalone jar without the need to deploy on an external server (e.g., Tomcat).
• Starter dependencies: sets of dependencies for popular functions that are easy to include and use.
• Minimal configuration: less XML or Java configurations, more default conventions.

Example of a simple Spring Boot application:

@SpringBootApplication
public class Application {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}

Thus, Spring Boot accelerates development and simplifies application maintenance compared to traditional Spring Framework.