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Top 20 Spring Boot Best Practices for Java Developers
20 Important Spring Boot and REST API Best Practices for Java Developers
7 min readFeb 20, 2025
Spring Boot simplifies the development of Spring applications with its convention over configuration approach and many out-of-the-box solutions for common application needs. In this article, I explained 20 important Spring Boot and REST API best practices for developers, each illustrated with “Avoid” and “Better” examples.
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1. Use Spring Boot Starters
Avoid: Manually configuring Spring dependencies in your pom.xml or build.gradle.
<!-- Example with Maven -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>5.3.9</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Additional individual Spring…
