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
Include auto-configuration support for EhCache with auto-detection of
the default `ehcache.xml` at the root of the classpath. EhCache
configuration can also be set via `spring.cache.config`.
See gh-2633
Add support for cache manager auto-configuration that is triggered when
the `EnableCaching` annotation is added to a Spring Boot application.
A new "spring.cache" set of configuration keys is also provided. The
"spring.cache.mode" allows the user to specify the cache provider that
should be auto-configured. If no explicit configuration is provided,
the environment is checked for the best suited cache implementation,
that is:
- Generic if at least one `Cache` bean is defined in the context.
- Hazelcast if either a default configuration file is present or the
`spring.cache.config` property is set.
- JCache if one JSR-107 provider is present
- Redis if a `RedisTemplate` is defined in the context
- Guava
- Simple as a fallback option, using concurrent maps
- NoOp (that is, no cache) if the mode is set to "none"
If the provider supports it, it is possible to specify the caches
to create on startup via `spring.cache.cache-names`. If the provider
relies on a configuration file and a custom one needs to be used
`spring.cache.config` can be set to such custom resource.
If more than one JSR-107 provider is present, it is possible to force
the provider to use by setting the mode to `jcache` and specifying the
fully qualified class name of the CachingProvider to use via
`spring.cache.jcache.provider`.
See gh-2633
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
Andy Wilkinson
Stephane Nicoll
Phillip Webb
Eddú Meléndez
Greg Turnquist
Maciej Walkowiak
izeye
Michael Cramer
Spring Buildmaster