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Main Application Class

Every Spring Boot project needs a main class with the @SpringBootApplication annotation to bootstrap the application context and start the embedded server.

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@SpringBootApplication
public class MyShopApplication {
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(MyShopApplication.class, args);
    }
}

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@SpringBootApplication

Enables auto-configuration, component scanning, and extra configuration features.

SpringApplication.run(...)

The static method used to launch the entire Spring application.

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