Spring Boot offers a fast way to build applications. It looks at your classpath and at beans you have configured, makes reasonable assumptions about what you’re missing, and adds it. With Spring Boot you can focus more on business features and less on infrastructure.

In this webinar Phil Webb will demonstrate how Spring Boot can take you from zero to Spring with minimal fuss : http://spring.io/blog/2013/10/02/webinar-replay-spring-boot-simplifying-spring-for-everyone