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Thank for the explanation
Nice overview Tanmay Khilari , Along with @SpringBootApplication annotation, it’s equally important to understand the role of SpringApplication.run(). This single line is responsible for bootstrapping the entire Spring Boot application—starting the application context, loading and initializing beans, triggering auto-configuration, and eventually launching the embedded server. Knowing what happens behind this line really helps in understanding Spring Boot internals and is quite useful from an interview as well as real-world debugging perspective.