M04 Q06 - Spring Boot supports both properties and YML files. Would you recognize and understand them if you saw them?

Spring Boot allows you to externalize configuration for the application by using properties stored in properties files that can be in format:

• YAML
• Java Properties File

YAML is a superset of JSON and it is convenience for specifying hierarchical data. Spring Boot supports YAML properties with usage of SnakeYAML library, which is included by default by spring-boot-starter.

You can transform application properties between YAML and Java Properties format: