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Spring Boot is a layer on top of Spring that makes it easier to use.

• diggan 3y ago
  Sounds to me like Spring Boot is a library to be used with the framework Spring in that case, as far as I can tell.
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  • bcrosby95 3y ago
    It's more than just a library, there are "starters" that they've developed that will pull in everything you need for certain stuff (such as web, or database, etc), and it will auto-find and configure everything for you. Furthermore, you can hand configure Spring. If anything, the framework here is the Java servlet container, not Spring. Spring just usually lives within that context. And at this point I'm not sure if that's completely true either. It's common to embed the servlet container - this is how Spring Boot works. I assume you can do that with raw Spring considering that's what Boot does, but I never bothered trying because I would just use Spring Boot at that point.