Spring Dependency Management make us better manage our project

Dependency Management can be applied for both Maven and Gradle.

Spring Boot Parent

1. Provides default configurations for our application and a complete dependency tree to quickly build our Spring Boot project.
2. provides default configuration for Maven plugins such as spring-boot-maven-plugin
3. We can pull any dependency from the parent by just declaring it in our dependencies tag — without define the versions.

Maven

Project Object Model (pom.xml) is fundamental unit of work in Maven