Following diagram highlights the important App Starter POM dependencies.
The dependencies are grouped in three categories:
- Core Spring Dependencies - represent the core framework libraries such as
Spring Boot,Spring Integration,Spring Cloud. The "Bill Of Materials" (BOM) patterns is actively used throughout the stack to decouple the dependency management for plugins and lifecycle configurations. Theapp-starters-buildand theapp-starters-core-dependenciesBOM provide the genericcompile-timedependencies for the App Starters projects. - Specific App Starter Dependencies - represent the starter applications. The root
[my-app-name]-app-starters-buildpom inherits all compile-time configurations and BOM from the core parentapp-starters-build, while the[my-app-name]-app-dependenciesBOM offers a place to manage the app specific dependencies. In addition to the external libraries, the[my-app-name]-app-dependenciesBOM manages the Apps projects dependencies too (e.g.spring-cloud-starters-stream-[type]-[my-app-name]). It is important to realize that the App Starter projects are not Spring Boot applications but used as seeds for the auto-generated Apps. - Generated Starter App - represents the
run-timestarter artifacts generated from the Specific App Starters and managed asSpring Bootapplications. Therun-timestarter extends from Spring Boot parent and merges the configurations of thespecific app,core appas well as thebootBOMs (e.g.[my-app-name]-app-dependencies,app-starters-core-dependencies,spring-boot-dependencies). The generated starter also includes specific starter implementation as well as the required [binder] starter.