What components are included in the Spring Boot Starter?

Spring Boot Starter is a set of dependencies that simplifies the integration and configuration of popular libraries and components in a Spring Boot project. Each starter includes the necessary libraries, configurations, and auto-configurations for specific functionality.

For example, Spring Boot Starter Web includes:

• Spring MVC for creating web applications
• Embedded server (Tomcat, Jetty, or Undertow)
• Jackson for working with JSON

Other popular starters:

• spring-boot-starter-data-jpa — for working with databases via JPA
• spring-boot-starter-security — for adding security
• spring-boot-starter-test — for testing

Thus, starters allow for quick and convenient integration of needed components without manual dependency management and configuration.