按住Ctrl点击pom.xml中的spring-boot-starter-parent，跳转到了spring-boot-starter-parent的pom.xml，xml配置如下（只摘抄了部分重点配置）：
<parent> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-dependencies</artifactId> <version>2.0.1.RELEASE</version> <relativePath>../../spring-boot-dependencies</relativePath> </parent>按住Ctrl点击pom.xml中的spring-boot-starter-dependencies，跳转到了
spring-boot-starter-dependencies的pom.xml，xml配置如下（只摘抄了部分重点配置）：
<properties> <activemq.version>5.15.3</activemq.version> <antlr2.version>2.7.7</antlr2.version> <appengine-sdk.version>1.9.63</appengine-sdk.version> <artemis.version>2.4.0</artemis.version> <aspectj.version>1.8.13</aspectj.version> <assertj.version>3.9.1</assertj.version> <atomikos.version>4.0.6</atomikos.version> <bitronix.version>2.1.4</bitronix.version> <build-helper-maven-plugin.version>3.0.0</build-helper-maven-plugin.version> …… </properties> <dependencyManagement> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot</artifactId> <version>2.0.1.RELEASE</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-test</artifactId> <version>2.0.1.RELEASE</version> </dependency> …… </dependencies> </dependencyManagement> <build> <pluginManagement> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId> <artifactId>kotlin-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>${kotlin.version}</version> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.jooq</groupId> <artifactId>jooq-codegen-maven</artifactId> <version>${jooq.version}</version> </plugin> ……… </plugins> </pluginManagement> </build>从上面的spring-boot-starter-dependencies的pom.xml中我们可以发现，一部分坐标的版本、依赖管理、插件管理已经定义好，所以我们的SpringBoot工程继承spring-boot-starter-parent后已经具备版本锁定等配置了。所以起步依赖的作用就是进行依赖的传递。
按住Ctrl点击pom.xml中的spring-boot-starter-web，跳转到了spring-boot-starter-web的pom.xml，xml配置如下（只摘抄了部分重点配置）：
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <parent> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starters</artifactId> <version>2.0.1.RELEASE</version> </parent> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId> <version>2.0.1.RELEASE</version> <name>Spring Boot Web Starter</name> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId> <version>2.0.1.RELEASE</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-json</artifactId> <version>2.0.1.RELEASE</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId> <version>2.0.1.RELEASE</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate.validator</groupId> <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId> <version>6.0.9.Final</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId> <version>5.0.5.RELEASE</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId> <version>5.0.5.RELEASE</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> </project>从上面的spring-boot-starter-web的pom.xml中我们可以发现，spring-boot-starter-web就是将web开发要使用的spring-web、spring-webmvc等坐标进行了“打包”，这样我们的工程只要引入spring-boot-starter-web起步依赖的坐标就可以进行web开发了，同样体现了依赖传递的作用。
按住Ctrl点击查看启动类MySpringBootApplication上的注解@SpringBootApplication
@SpringBootApplication public class MySpringBootApplication { public static void main(String[] args) { SpringApplication.run(MySpringBootApplication.class); } }注解@SpringBootApplication的源码：
@Target(ElementType.TYPE) @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) @Documented @Inherited @SpringBootConfiguration @EnableAutoConfiguration @ComponentScan(excludeFilters = { @Filter(type = FilterType.CUSTOM, classes = TypeExcludeFilter.class), @Filter(type = FilterType.CUSTOM, classes = AutoConfigurationExcludeFilter.class) }) public @interface SpringBootApplication { /** * Exclude specific auto-configuration classes such that they will never be applied. * @return the classes to exclude */ @AliasFor(annotation = EnableAutoConfiguration.class) Class<?>[] exclude() default {}; …… }其中：
@SpringBootConfiguration：等同与@Configuration，既标注该类是Spring的一个配置类
@EnableAutoConfiguration：SpringBoot自动配置功能开启
按住Ctrl点击查看注解@EnableAutoConfiguration
@Target(ElementType.TYPE) @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) @Documented @Inherited @AutoConfigurationPackage @Import(AutoConfigurationImportSelector.class) public @interface EnableAutoConfiguration { ……… }其中，@Import(AutoConfigurationImportSelector.class) 导入了AutoConfigurationImportSelector类
按住Ctrl点击查看AutoConfigurationImportSelector源码
@Override public String[] selectImports(AnnotationMetadata annotationMetadata) { if (!isEnabled(annotationMetadata)) { return NO_IMPORTS; } AutoConfigurationMetadata autoConfigurationMetadata = AutoConfigurationMetadataLoader .loadMetadata(this.beanClassLoader); AnnotationAttributes attributes = getAttributes(annotationMetadata); List<String> configurations = getCandidateConfigurations(annotationMetadata, attributes); configurations = removeDuplicates(configurations); Set<String> exclusions = getExclusions(annotationMetadata, attributes); checkExcludedClasses(configurations, exclusions); configurations.removeAll(exclusions); configurations = filter(configurations, autoConfigurationMetadata); fireAutoConfigurationImportEvents(configurations, exclusions); return StringUtils.toStringArray(configurations); } protected List<String> getCandidateConfigurations(AnnotationMetadata metadata, AnnotationAttributes attributes) { List<String> configurations = SpringFactoriesLoader.loadFactoryNames( getSpringFactoriesLoaderFactoryClass(), getBeanClassLoader()); Assert.notEmpty(configurations, "No auto configuration classes found in META-INF/spring.factories. If you " + "are using a custom packaging, make sure that file is correct."); return configurations; }其中，SpringFactoriesLoader.loadFactoryNames 方法的作用就是从META-INF/spring.factories文件中读取指定类对应的类名称列表
spring.factories 文件中有关自动配置的配置信息如下：
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org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.reactive.HttpHandlerAutoConfiguration,\org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.reactive.ReactiveWebServerFactoryAutoConfiguration,\org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.reactive.WebFluxAutoConfiguration,\org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.reactive.error.ErrorWebFluxAutoConfiguration,\org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.reactive.function.client.WebClientAutoConfiguration,\org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.servlet.DispatcherServletAutoConfiguration,\org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.servlet.ServletWebServerFactoryAutoConfiguration,\org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.servlet.error.ErrorMvcAutoConfiguration,\org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.servlet.HttpEncodingAutoConfiguration,\org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.servlet.MultipartAutoConfiguration,\org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.servlet.WebMvcAutoConfiguration,\
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上面配置文件存在大量的以Configuration为结尾的类名称，这些类就是存有自动配置信息的类，而
SpringApplication在获取这些类名后再加载
我们以ServletWebServerFactoryAutoConfiguration为例来分析源码：
@Configuration @AutoConfigureOrder(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)@ConditionalOnClass(ServletRequest.class)@ConditionalOnWebApplication(type = Type.SERVLET)@EnableConfigurationProperties(ServerProperties.class)@Import({ ServletWebServerFactoryAutoConfiguration.BeanPostProcessorsRegistrar.class, ServletWebServerFactoryConfiguration.EmbeddedTomcat.class, ServletWebServerFactoryConfiguration.EmbeddedJetty.class, ServletWebServerFactoryConfiguration.EmbeddedUndertow.class })public class ServletWebServerFactoryAutoConfiguration {
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}
其中，
@EnableConfigurationProperties(ServerProperties.class) 代表加载ServerProperties服务器配置属性类
进入ServerProperties.class源码如下：
@ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "server", ignoreUnknownFields = true)public class ServerProperties { /**Server HTTP port. */ private Integer port; /**Network address to which the server should bind. */ private InetAddress address;
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}
其中，
prefix = "server" 表示SpringBoot配置文件中的前缀，SpringBoot会将配置文件中以server开始的属性映射到该类的字段中。映射关系如下：
