1. With Spring Boot you can focus more on business features and less on infrastructure. 2. With Spring Boot, project gets added with required libraries and configurations based on reasonable assumptions that Spring boot makes. Assumptions will be made based on the class path. 3. Spring Boot doesn’t generate code or make edits to your files. Instead, when you start up your application, Spring Boot dynamically wires up beans and settings and applies them to your application context. Spring Boot = Spring Framework + Embded HTTP Servers (Tomcat, Jetty etc..) - XM Configurations For more information visit http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/