That's what Spring Boot is for. Everything is autoconfigured and set to sensible defaults. All the dependencies in the starters are levelled and guaranteed to

That's what Spring Boot is for. Everything is autoconfigured and set to sensible defaults. All the dependencies in the starters are levelled and guaranteed to work together. Spring Boot on Gradle is the closest thing Java has to adding lines to a Gemfile in a Ruby system. Especially when you add other Spring automagical libraries (Spring Data REST, Spring Cloud...).