Spring Initializr provides an extensible API to generate quickstart projects. It also provides a configurable service: you can see our default instance at start.spring.io. It provides a simple web UI to configure the project to generate and endpoints that you can use via plain HTTP.
Spring Initializr also exposes an endpoint that serves its metadata in a well-known format to allow third-party clients to provide the necessary assistance.
Finally, Initializr offers a configuration structure to define all the aspects related to the project to generate: list of dependencies, supported java and boot versions, etc.
The Spring Initializr reference guide is available as html, pdf and epub documents. The latest copy is available at docs.spring.io/initializr/docs/current/reference.
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