REST APIs with Spring, JPA, and Springfox/

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Configuration and Application Start-Up

Configuration and Application Start-Up

Let’s explore the auto-configuration provided by Spring Boot and interact with the live app.

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SpringBootApplication annotation

Open the TodoApplication class in the src/main/java/io/educative package and check out the @SpringBootApplication annotation.

package io.educative;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
@SpringBootApplication
public class TodoApplication {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(TodoApplication.class, args);
    }
}

This annotation contains a combination of the following three primary annotations:

  • The @ComponentScan annotation looks for components like controllers, services, and repositories to add them to the
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