Update About Springboot authored by Joel Gingrich's avatar Joel Gingrich
### Spring Boot
Spring Boot is being used to automatically configure and run a RESTful web service for external communications with the FRPG.
- More info on [Spring](https://spring.io/why-spring "Spring")
- More info on [Spring Boot](https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot "Spring Boot")
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- More info on [Spring Boot](https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot "Spring Boot")
##### Example of Server Architecture:
![Spring_boot_flow_architecture](uploads/ab06d4002e3a6ebef6cfcd9ca1f8ed38/Spring_boot_flow_architecture.png)
The server is currently based off of a modified version of this architecture. The main difference is that preexisting gateways are being used for database communications instead of a JPA/Spring Data repository solution. Dependency injection is still used in order to access the gateways.
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