Spring Boot

This is your go-to for building production Java applications with Spring Boot 3.x. It covers the essentials: dependency injection with constructor patterns, REST controllers with proper request/response DTOs, Spring Data JPA repositories, and actuator monitoring. The skill emphasizes modern practices like constructor injection over field injection, transactional service layers, and validation annotations. It's structured around real project patterns you'll actually use, from the standard package layout to ResponseEntity handling. If you're building microservices or REST APIs in Java and want sensible defaults without fighting configuration, this gives you the patterns and annotations to move fast.

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$ npx -y skills add bobmatnyc/claude-mpm-skills --skill spring-boot --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Spring Boot 3.x - Production-Ready Java Framework

Overview

Spring Boot is an opinionated Java framework for building production-ready applications with minimal configuration. It provides auto-configuration, embedded servers, and production-ready features like health checks and metrics.

Key Features:

Auto-configuration (sensible defaults)
Embedded servers (Tomcat, Jetty, Undertow)
Dependency Injection with @Autowired
Spring Data JPA for database access
Spring Security for authentication/authorization
Actuator for production monitoring
Built-in testing support

Requirements:

Java 17+ (Spring Boot 3.x requires Java 17 minimum)
Maven or Gradle

Quick Start:

# Create project from Spring Initializr
curl https://start.spring.io/starter.zip \
  -d type=maven-project \
  -d language=java \
  -d bootVersion=3.2.0 \
  -d dependencies=web,data-jpa,postgresql,lombok,actuator \
  -d name=myapp \
  -o myapp.zip && unzip myapp.zip

# Run the application
cd myapp
./mvnw spring-boot:run