<p>The Spring team at Pivotal has announced the 1.0 release of its Spring Boot rapid application development framework.</p><p>The "convention-over-configuration centric framework" launched April 1, and was followed by a quick bug-fix release (1.01). The latest version is available now on the Maven Central and repo.spring.io repositories.</p><p>Spring Boot is designed to be "a radically faster and widely accessible" means of getting started with Spring development. It's designed make it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring-based applications that "just run" with little Spring configuration. It allows Java developers to create apps that can be started using java -jar or more traditional war deployments. And there's a command line tool that runs spring scripts.</p><p>Spring boot is "opinionated" out of the box, which means that it encourages specific practices to increase ease of development.</p><p><a href="http://adtmag.com/articles/2014/04/09/spring-boot-launch.aspx">Keep reading...</a></p>