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The Spring Boot Entry Point

This annotation is the starting point of every Spring Boot application. It enables auto-configuration, component scanning, and allows you to define extra configuration.

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

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@SpringBootApplication

Combines @Configuration, @EnableAutoConfiguration, and @ComponentScan into one annotation.

SpringApplication.run(...)

The static method that launches the entire Spring application context.

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