Trying to upvote this because it's good info! But, but, I have one better :) Spring Boot 1.0 GA Released [1] blog post, says, and links to a Spring Issue SPR-9

Trying to upvote this because it's good info! But, but, I have one better :) Spring Boot 1.0 GA Released [1] blog post, says, and links to a Spring Issue SPR-9888: "It's been 18 months since the original request [2] to "improve containerless web application architectures", that gave birth to Spring Boot, was raised." The body of the original issue [2] says, midway down: "I think that Spring's web application architecture can be significantly simplified if it were to provided tools and a reference architecture that leveraged the Spring component and configuration model from top to bottom. Embedding and unifying the configuration of those common web container services within a Spring Container bootstrapped from a simple main() method. Though there are many frameworks and platforms today that no longer require a container I think inspiration can be drawn most from DropWizard (http://dropwizard.codahale.com/ http://dropwizard.codahale.com/). Another project I've seen inspired by DropWizard but leveraging Spring is HalfPipe (https://github.com/32degrees/halfpipe https://github.com/32degrees/halfpipe). Though I don't think HalfPipe goes far enough. I think to truly provide simplification the entire architecture, wherever reasonable, must be embedded within the Spring container rather than without. Though it does have several other interesting ideas." [1] https://spring.io/blog/2014/04/01/spring-boot-1-0-ga-released https://spring.io/blog/2014/04/01/spring-boot-1-0-ga-release... [2] https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-9888 https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-9888