Previously, the only starter that provided validation was
spring-boot-starter-web which included Hibernate Validator and
Tomcat's EL implementation. This left users writing non-web
applications to figure out the dependencies for themselves. They would
sometimes run into difficulties as Hibernate Validator's need for an
EL implementation would trip them up.
This commit adds a new starter, spring-boot-starter-validation,
which provides both Hibernate Validator and Tomcat's EL
implementation. spring-boot-starter-web has been updated to depend on
this starter rather than depending on Hibernate Validator directly.
Closes gh-2678
This commit replaces Spring Boot's basic dependency management support
with separate dependency management plugin. This has a number of
benefits including:
1. A Maven bom can be used rather than a custom properties file
2. Dependency management is applied transitively rather than only to
direct dependencies
3. Exclusions are applied as they would be in Maven
4. Gradle-generated poms are automatically configured with the
appropriate dependency management
Closes gh-2133
A dependency on org.glassfish.jersey.ext:jersey-bean-validation has
been added to spring-boot-starter-jersey. jersey-bean-validation’s EL
dependencies have been excluded in favour of those provided by
spring-boot-starter-tomcat (or starter-jetty or starter-undertow should
the user choose to use a different embedded container).
Closes gh-2315
Jersey 2 has some Spring support built in but it's a bit awkward to
use in a Boot app, so autoconfiguration seems appropriate. The tests
and sample show how to use it, but the short story is that any
@Component can define JAX-RS endpoints via @GET etc.
There's a sample for Jersey 1 as well (pay careful attention to
the plugin configuration if you want to build an executable jar)
Fixes gh-1651
Andy Wilkinson
Phillip Webb
Spring Buildmaster
Dave Syer