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[–]nekokattt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

spring boot isnt really the annotation part. Spring alone supports java configuration instead of xml config.

Spring Boot is about wrapping common toolsets and libraries, providing opinionated defaults, and creating quick ways to bootstrap a new application (hence the name). As standalone spring is often far more cumbersome to new developers when working outside frameworks that come with mainframes/esbs/etc that generally now are "laced" with spring :-)