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Have you created your own Spring Boot Starter for a project?

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Answer from AI

Yes, creating a custom Spring Boot Starter is a good way to encapsulate common configurations, dependencies, and settings that can be reused across multiple projects.

Main steps to create your own starter package:

  1. Create a separate Maven/Gradle module with the dependencies you want to include.
  2. Add auto-configuration using @Configuration and @ConditionalOn... annotations for flexible activation.
  3. Register auto-configuration in META-INF/spring.factories.
  4. Publish the artifact to a local or remote repository.

Example auto-configuration:

@Configuration
@ConditionalOnClass(SomeLibrary.class)
public class MyStarterAutoConfiguration {

    @Bean
    public MyService myService() {
        return new MyService();
    }
}

This allows your starter dependencies to automatically wire in the necessary beans and configurations when added to a project, without additional code.