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Spring Boot - @SpringBootApplication Examples

[Last Updated: Nov 8, 2025]

Spring Boot 

This example shows how @SpringBootApplication can be used for component scanning along with auto-configuration of MVC application. @SpringBootApplication is equivalent to using @Configuratin, @ComponentScanning and @EnableAutoConfiguration.

package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class EnabledAutoConfigExample {

public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(EnabledAutoConfigExample.class, args);
}
}

package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;

@Controller
public class MyWebController {

@Autowired
private MyBean myBean;

@RequestMapping("/")
@ResponseBody
public String theHandler () {
return myBean.getMessage();
}
}

package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
public class MyBean {
public String getMessage () {
return "a message from MyBean";
}
}

pom.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>4.1.2</version>
</parent>
<groupId>com.logicbig.example</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-annotation</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<properties>
<java.version>25</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
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package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder;
import org.springframework.boot.web.support.SpringBootServletInitializer;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;

import java.time.LocalDateTime;

@SpringBootApplication
public class JarWebappExplodedExample extends SpringBootServletInitializer {

@Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure (SpringApplicationBuilder builder) {
return builder.sources(JarWebappExplodedExample.class);
}

public static void main (String[] args) {
SpringApplication sa = new SpringApplication(JarWebappExplodedExample.class);
sa.setLogStartupInfo(false);
sa.run(args);
}

@Controller
public static class MyController {

@RequestMapping("/")
public String handler (Model model) {
model.addAttribute("date",
LocalDateTime.now());
return "myPage";
}
}
}
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