Benefits of Spring Boot properties files While configuring properties files might not be as exciting as extending a Java class or coding a Java component, doing so is equally important. Fortunately, ...

Spring's application.properties file To demonstrate how the application.properties Spring configuration file works with the Spring @ConfigurationProperties annotation, we fill the file with a variety ...

Navigate to Spring Initializr at start.spring.io and select Generate a Maven Project with Java and Spring Boot 2.0.X, where X is the latest Spring Boot version (2.0.3 at time of this writing).