springboot starter是一组依赖的集合，你可以在项目中引入starter来得到spring以及对应功能的一系列支持，比如，如果你的项目需要使用到freemarker，那你可以直接通过引入 spring-boot-starter-freemarker来得到支持，而不需要管freemarker是否需要其他的依赖，starter会将你需要的所有依赖全部自动引入，大大减少了在配置上花费的时间。springboot官方提供了一系列的starter，如下：
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| spring-boot-starter | Core starter, including auto-configuration support, logging and YAML |
| spring-boot-starter-activemq | Starter for JMS messaging using Apache ActiveMQ |
| spring-boot-starter-amqp | Starter for using Spring AMQP and Rabbit MQ |
| spring-boot-starter-aop | Starter for aspect-oriented programming with Spring AOP and AspectJ |
| spring-boot-starter-artemis | Starter for JMS messaging using Apache Artemis |
| spring-boot-starter-batch | Starter for using Spring Batch |
| spring-boot-starter-cache | Starter for using Spring Framework’s caching support |
| spring-boot-starter-cloud-connectors | Starter for using Spring Cloud Connectors which simplifies connecting to services in cloud platforms like Cloud Foundry and Heroku |
| spring-boot-starter-data-cassandra | Starter for using Cassandra distributed database and Spring Data Cassandra |
| spring-boot-starter-data-couchbase | Starter for using Couchbase document-oriented database and Spring Data Couchbase |
| spring-boot-starter-data-elasticsearch | Starter for using Elasticsearch search and analytics engine and Spring Data Elasticsearch |
| spring-boot-starter-data-gemfire | Starter for using GemFire distributed data store and Spring Data GemFire |
| spring-boot-starter-data-jpa | Starter for using Spring Data JPA with Hibernate |
| spring-boot-starter-data-ldap | Starter for using Spring Data LDAP |
| spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb | Starter for using MongoDB document-oriented database and Spring Data MongoDB |
| spring-boot-starter-data-neo4j | Starter for using Neo4j graph database and Spring Data Neo4j |
| spring-boot-starter-data-redis | Starter for using Redis key-value data store with Spring Data Redis and the Jedis client |
| spring-boot-starter-data-rest | Starter for exposing Spring Data repositories over REST using Spring Data REST |
| spring-boot-starter-data-solr | Starter for using the Apache Solr search platform with Spring Data Solr |
| spring-boot-starter-freemarker | Starter for building MVC web applications using FreeMarker views |
| spring-boot-starter-groovy-templates | Starter for building MVC web applications using Groovy Templates views |
| spring-boot-starter-hateoas | Starter for building hypermedia-based RESTful web application with Spring MVC and Spring HATEOAS |
| spring-boot-starter-integration | Starter for using Spring Integration |
| spring-boot-starter-jdbc | Starter for using JDBC with the Tomcat JDBC connection pool |
| spring-boot-starter-jersey | Starter for building RESTful web applications using JAX-RS and Jersey. An alternative to spring-boot-starter-web |
| spring-boot-starter-jooq | Starter for using jOOQ to access SQL databases. An alternative to spring-boot-starter-data-jpa or spring-boot-starter-jdbc |
| spring-boot-starter-jta-atomikos | Starter for JTA transactions using Atomikos |
| spring-boot-starter-jta-bitronix | Starter for JTA transactions using Bitronix |
| spring-boot-starter-jta-narayana | Spring Boot Narayana JTA Starter |
| spring-boot-starter-mail | Starter for using Java Mail and Spring Framework’s email sending support |
| spring-boot-starter-mobile | Starter for building web applications using Spring Mobile |
| spring-boot-starter-mustache | Starter for building MVC web applications using Mustache views |
| spring-boot-starter-security | Starter for using Spring Security |
| spring-boot-starter-social-facebook | Starter for using Spring Social Facebook |
| spring-boot-starter-social-linkedin | Stater for using Spring Social LinkedIn |
| spring-boot-starter-social-twitter | Starter for using Spring Social Twitter |
| spring-boot-starter-test | Starter for testing Spring Boot applications with libraries including JUnit, Hamcrest and Mockito |
| spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf | Starter for building MVC web applications using Thymeleaf views |
| spring-boot-starter-validation | Starter for using Java Bean Validation with Hibernate Validator |
| spring-boot-starter-web | Starter for building web, including RESTful, applications using Spring MVC. Uses Tomcat as the default embedded container |
| spring-boot-starter-web-services | Starter for using Spring Web Services |
| spring-boot-starter-websocket | Starter for building WebSocket applications using Spring Framework’s WebSocket support |
所有官方的starter都遵循spring-boot-starter-*这种命名习惯
*表示特殊的功能，可以很方便的通过名称来找到自己需要的starter