Spring Boot

Almost 5 years ago (time flies!) Phil Webb and Dave Syer wrote a blog and twitter entry that boiled down to this:

@Controller 
class ThisWillActuallyRun { 

    @RequestMapping("/") 
    @ResponseBody 

    String home() { 
        return "Hello World!" 
    }
 }

https://spring.io/blog/2013/08/06/spring-boot-simplifying-spring-for-everyone/