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Questions on Spring Boot starters...

arnoldschrijve1 — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 14:17:14 GMT

Hi,Two questions on the new spring boot starters for Activiti:1. Why does spring-boot-starter-basic‍ depend on spring-integration:It has an optional dependency on: <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.integration</groupId> <artifactId>spring-

Re: Questions on Spring Boot starters...

jbarrez — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:34:10 GMT

1. Good question, it was like that before first. But the idea with every Spring Boot starter is that they only contain some pom.xml and refer to some basic jar …

2. No. We're agnostic. We like both of them (but Spring is making huge strides forward the last year!)

Re: Questions on Spring Boot starters...

arnoldschrijve1 — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:38:45 GMT

Alright, thanks!
Yeah, I just saw the move to Spring MVC in the latest release. We are using the same for REST services including spring-security, so that is just great!

Re: Questions on Spring Boot starters...

jbarrez — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:10:06 GMT

Indeed 🙂

We just observed that Spring MVC is currently one of the best Rest choices. Their development is really on the edge of new stuff … so it made sense to switch. Also, all the enterprise Activiti bits are based on Spring MVC too, so it made sense to change it one day.