From e187aac93d0080295710c9c4d0dc40ca68947ac4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephane Nicoll Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 15:56:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Mention that a custom starter must bring the core starter Closes gh-11455 --- spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc index e67adefb8c..45ed2704cf 100644 --- a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc +++ b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc @@ -6505,6 +6505,11 @@ a proper set of _default_ dependencies may be hard if the number of optional dep is high as you should avoid bringing unnecessary dependencies for a typical usage of the library. +NOTE: Either way, your starter must reference the core Spring Boot starter +(`spring-boot-starter`) directly or indirectly (i.e. no need to add it if your starter +relies on another starter). If a project is created with only your custom starter, Spring +Boot's core features will be honoured by the presence of the core starter. + [[boot-features-whats-next]]