This section includes topics about setting and reading properties and configuration settings and their interaction with Spring Boot applications.

Spring Boot helps you to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring-based applications that you can run. We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries, so that you can get …

In addition to Spring Boot’s predefined Status types, Health can return a custom Status that represents a new system state. In such cases, you also need to provide a custom implementation of the …

Aug 3, 2025 · Spring Boot made configuring Spring easier with its auto-configuration feature. In this quick tutorial, we’ll explore the annotations from the org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure and …

To include Feign in your project use the starter with group org.springframework.cloud and artifact id spring-cloud-starter-openfeign. See the Spring Cloud Project page for details on setting up your build …

Feb 21, 2023 · Here, we are using @PropertySource annotation with a value of classpath:discounts.properties in the Java config class. The classpath: prefix tells the Spring to …

You can define exclusions both at the annotation level and by using the property. Even though auto-configuration classes are public, the only aspect of the class that is considered public API is the …

The Spring Framework has first-class support for the notion of an environment with a hierarchy of property sources, and you can configure integration tests with test-specific property sources. In …

@EnableAutoConfiguration: Tells Spring Boot to start adding beans based on classpath settings, other beans, and various property settings. For example, if spring-webmvc is on the classpath, this …

Mar 18, 2026 · Learn a few approaches to getting property values to reload in Spring Beans, including Spring Cloud's refresh scope.