Understanding spring-boot-starter-tomcat in Spring Boot
Spring Boot simplifies the process of developing stand-alone, production-grade Spring-based applications. One of the key features that make this possible is the use of starters. In this blog post, we’ll dive into the spring-boot-starter-tomcat starter, which provides the necessary dependencies to run an embedded Tomcat server within a Spring Boot application. What is spring-boot-starter-tomcat ? The spring-boot-starter-tomcat is a starter for using Tomcat as the embedded servlet container. By including this starter, you can run your Spring Boot application with an embedded Tomcat server, eliminating the need to deploy your application to an external server. Adding spring-boot-starter-tomcat to Your Project To use the spring-boot-starter-tomcat , you need to include it in your pom.xml if you’re using Maven: < dependency > < groupId > org.springframework.boot </ groupId > < artifactId > spring-boot-starter-tomcat </ artifactId > </ d...