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Terminology Before moving further, let’s understand what specific terms such as SSL or TLS means. SSL  – stands for  Secure Sockets Layer . It is the industry standard protocol for keeping an internet connection secure by safeguarding all sensitive data that is being sent between two systems, preventing hackers from reading and modifying any information transferred. TLS  – (Transport Layer Security) is an updated, more secure, version of SSL. It adds more features. Today, certificates provided by certificate authorities are based on TLS only. But regarding secured communication over network, the term SSL is still common as it is the old and just become popular among community. HTTPS  – (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure) appears in the URL when a website is secured by an SSL certificate. It is the secured version of HTTP protocol. Truststore and Keystore  – Those are used to store SSL certificates in Java but there is little difference betwee...

Spring Boot It is a Spring module which provides RAD (Rapid Application Development) feature to Spring framework. It is used to create stand alone spring based application that you can just run because it needs very little spring configuration. Spring Boot does not generate code and there is absolutely no requirement for XML configuration. It uses convention over configuration software design paradigm that means it decrease the effort of developer. Advantages of Spring Boot Create stand-alone Spring applications that can be started using java -jar. Embed Tomcat, Jetty or Undertow directly. You don't need to deploy WAR files. It provides opinionated 'starter' POMs to simplify your Maven configuration. It automatically configure Spring whenever possible. It provides production-ready features such as metrics, health checks and externalized configuration. Absolutely no code generation and no requirement for XML configuratio...