A Spring Cloud Task is made up of a Spring Boot application that is expected to end. In our POM above, we created the shell of a Spring Boot application from a dependency perspective by setting our parent to use the spring-boot-starter-parent.

Spring Boot provides a number of additional "Starter POMs". Some of which are appropriate for use within tasks (spring-boot-starter-batch, spring-boot-starter-jdbc, etc) and some may not be ('spring-boot-starter-web` is probably not going to be used in a task). The indicator of if a starter makes sense or not comes down to if the resulting application will end (batch based applications typically end, the spring-boot-starter-web dependency bootstraps a servlet container which probably wont').

For this example, we’ll only need to add a single additional dependency, the one for Spring Cloud Task itself:

		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-cloud-task-core</artifactId>
			<version>1.2.1.RELEASE</version>
		</dependency>