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Understanding auto-configuration

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Understanding auto-configuration

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- [Instructor] Auto-configuration is the heart of Spring Boot. It's actually the magic behind it that makes everything work. We're going to go into a lot more detail down the road into all of this auto-configuration, but I at least want to give you a cursory understanding as we get started with this course. The @EnableAutoConfiguration annotation is a powerful construct that drives much of Spring Boot. It's what allows for configuration classes to be dynamically scanned into the application context. It's based off jars that are loaded onto the class path, usually via Maven or Gradle dependency management. It's not always the case though that it's the jars on the class path, and again, we'll go into more detail of that. It's driven off of the spring.factories file that's in the META-INF directory of each jar that gets loaded into the application itself via one of those dependency management systems. And of course, we're talking about the Spring artifacts themselves. In addition, you…

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