Extending Spring Boot with Custom Starters

Throughout this book, we have leveraged numerous Spring Boot starters like spring-boot-starter-web and spring-boot-starter-data-jpa. These starters are the cornerstone of Spring Boot’s convention-over-configuration philosophy, abstracting away complex setup and configuration. But what if you have common components, configurations, or intelligent agents like our AI-powered CRM Assistant that you want to share across multiple microservices or applications in your own organization?