What Spring Boot Starter can be used for a Spring REST Application?

Question

Options

• Aspring-boot-starter-web
• Bspring-boot-starter-rest
• Cspring-boot-starter-rest-mvc
• Dspring-boot-starter-web-mvc

• A
  95% (39)
• B
  2% (1)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

spring-boot-starter-web (option A) is correct because it bundles everything needed for a Spring REST application: Spring MVC, an embedded Tomcat server, Jackson for JSON serialization, and validation support - all in one dependency. Options B and C (spring-boot-starter-rest and spring-boot-starter-rest-mvc) do not exist in the Spring Boot ecosystem and are fabricated distractors. Option D (spring-boot-starter-web-mvc) is also non-existent; while "Spring MVC" is the underlying framework, the actual starter artifact is simply named -web.

Memory tip: Think "web = the whole package" - REST APIs are web applications, so the -web starter is the one-stop shop. If you see -rest anywhere in a starter name, it's a trap.

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