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What is Spring Boot auto-configuration (and what are starters)?

Answer

Boot auto-configures beans based on what’s on the classpath and your properties (so you get sensible defaults). Starters are dependency bundles (e.g., `spring-boot-starter-web`) that pull common libraries and enable related auto-config.

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