Spring Plugins

spring boot provides two useful gradle plugins:

• Spring Boot plugin
• Spring Dependency Management plugin

Spring Boot plugin

• plugin id : org.springframework.boot
• registers tasks
  • bootRun task : run spring boot application, which detects and runs main Spring Boot class
  • bootJar task : generate an executable jar file

Spring Dependency Management plugin

• plugin id : io.spring.dependency-management
• automatically applies version to spring boot dependencies(springboot-starter-*)