Dependencies

Haft provides access to all official Spring Boot starters plus 230+ additional dependency shortcuts for popular libraries across 35 categories.

Build Tool Support

Haft automatically detects your build tool and modifies the appropriate file:

File Found	Build Tool	Dependency Format
pom.xml	Maven	XML dependencies
build.gradle.kts	Gradle (Kotlin DSL)	Kotlin DSL syntax
build.gradle	Gradle (Groovy DSL)	Groovy DSL syntax

Spring Initializr Dependencies

These are the official Spring Boot starters available during haft init:

Developer Tools

Dependency	Description
devtools	Spring Boot DevTools for fast restarts
lombok	Java annotation library for boilerplate reduction
configuration-processor	Generate metadata for configuration properties
docker-compose	Docker Compose support

Web

Dependency	Description
web	Spring Web MVC for RESTful applications
webflux	Reactive web framework
graphql	Spring GraphQL support
rest-docs	Document RESTful APIs
hateoas	Hypermedia-driven RESTful services
web-services	SOAP web services
jersey	JAX-RS with Jersey
vaadin	Vaadin Flow web framework
thymeleaf	Thymeleaf template engine
freemarker	FreeMarker template engine
mustache	Mustache template engine
groovy-templates	Groovy template engine

SQL Databases

Dependency	Description
data-jpa	Spring Data JPA with Hibernate
data-jdbc	Spring Data JDBC
jdbc	Spring JDBC
h2	H2 Database (embedded)
mysql	MySQL Driver
postgresql	PostgreSQL Driver
mariadb	MariaDB Driver
oracle	Oracle Driver
sqlserver	Microsoft SQL Server Driver
flyway	Flyway database migrations
liquibase	Liquibase database migrations
jooq	jOOQ SQL DSL

NoSQL Databases

Dependency	Description
data-mongodb	Spring Data MongoDB
data-mongodb-reactive	Reactive MongoDB
data-redis	Spring Data Redis
data-redis-reactive	Reactive Redis
data-elasticsearch	Spring Data Elasticsearch
data-cassandra	Spring Data Cassandra
data-cassandra-reactive	Reactive Cassandra
data-couchbase	Spring Data Couchbase
data-couchbase-reactive	Reactive Couchbase
data-neo4j	Spring Data Neo4j

Security

Dependency	Description
security	Spring Security
oauth2-client	OAuth2 Client
oauth2-resource-server	OAuth2 Resource Server
oauth2-authorization-server	OAuth2 Authorization Server
ldap	LDAP authentication

Messaging

Dependency	Description
kafka	Apache Kafka
kafka-streams	Kafka Streams
amqp	RabbitMQ (AMQP)
artemis	Apache ActiveMQ Artemis
pulsar	Apache Pulsar
pulsar-reactive	Reactive Pulsar
websocket	WebSocket support
rsocket	RSocket

Cloud

Dependency	Description
cloud-config-client	Config Client
cloud-config-server	Config Server
cloud-eureka-client	Eureka Discovery Client
cloud-eureka-server	Eureka Discovery Server
cloud-gateway	Spring Cloud Gateway
cloud-gateway-mvc	Spring Cloud Gateway MVC
cloud-circuitbreaker-resilience4j	Circuit Breaker (Resilience4j)
cloud-starter-consul-discovery	Consul Discovery
cloud-starter-vault-config	Vault Configuration
cloud-starter-zookeeper-discovery	Zookeeper Discovery

Observability

Dependency	Description
actuator	Spring Boot Actuator
datadog	Datadog metrics
graphite	Graphite metrics
influx	InfluxDB metrics
new-relic	New Relic metrics
prometheus	Prometheus metrics
wavefront	Wavefront metrics
zipkin	Zipkin distributed tracing
distributed-tracing	Micrometer Tracing

Testing

Dependency	Description
testcontainers	Testcontainers support
cloud-contract-verifier	Spring Cloud Contract Verifier
cloud-contract-stub-runner	Spring Cloud Contract Stub Runner
restdocs	Spring REST Docs

I/O

Dependency	Description
batch	Spring Batch
integration	Spring Integration
mail	Java Mail Sender
quartz	Quartz Scheduler
cache	Spring Cache
validation	Bean Validation (Hibernate Validator)

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Extended Shortcuts (230+)

Beyond Spring Initializr starters, haft add supports 230+ shortcuts for popular libraries:

Web & HTTP

Shortcut	Description
feign	Declarative REST client (OpenFeign)
resilience4j	Fault tolerance (circuit breaker)
restclient	Synchronous HTTP client
webclient	Reactive HTTP client
okhttp	OkHttp HTTP client
retrofit	Retrofit type-safe REST client
httpclient5	Apache HttpClient 5
session-redis	Distributed sessions with Redis
session-jdbc	Distributed sessions with JDBC
grpc	gRPC framework for Spring Boot
bucket4j	Rate limiting library
spring-cloud-gateway	API Gateway for microservices
eureka	Service discovery with Eureka
consul	Service discovery with Consul
config-server	Centralized configuration server
config-client	Config server client

SQL Databases (Extended)

Shortcut	Description
jpa	Spring Data JPA (alias)
mybatis	MyBatis SQL mapping framework
r2dbc	Reactive database access
r2dbc-postgresql	Reactive PostgreSQL driver
clickhouse	ClickHouse column-oriented OLAP
cockroachdb	CockroachDB distributed SQL
timescaledb	TimescaleDB time-series
voltdb	VoltDB in-memory SQL
sqlite	SQLite embedded database
hsqldb	HSQLDB embedded database
derby	Apache Derby embedded database
duckdb	DuckDB analytical database
questdb	QuestDB time-series database

NoSQL (Extended)

Shortcut	Description
mongodb	Spring Data MongoDB
mongodb-reactive	Reactive MongoDB support
redis	Spring Data Redis
elasticsearch	Spring Data Elasticsearch
cassandra	Spring Data Cassandra
neo4j	Spring Data Neo4j
couchbase	Couchbase NoSQL database
scylladb	ScyllaDB (Cassandra-compatible)
influxdb	InfluxDB time-series database
arangodb	ArangoDB multi-model database
hazelcast	Hazelcast in-memory data grid
ignite	Apache Ignite distributed computing
memcached	Memcached distributed caching
dynamodb-local	DynamoDB enhanced client

Security (Extended)

Shortcut	Description
jwt	JJWT library (api + impl + jackson)
passay	Password validation library
keycloak	Keycloak admin client
auth0	Auth0 authentication
vault	HashiCorp Vault integration
bouncy-castle	Bouncy Castle cryptography
jasypt	Encryption for properties
nimbus-jose	Nimbus JOSE+JWT
otp	TOTP/HOTP for 2FA
supertokens	SuperTokens open source auth
kratos	Ory Kratos identity management
cas	CAS authentication client
saml	Spring Security SAML
spring-session	Distributed session management
recaptcha	Google reCAPTCHA integration

Messaging (Extended)

Shortcut	Description
rabbitmq	RabbitMQ Java client (direct)
activemq	ActiveMQ JMS messaging
nats	NATS messaging system
zeromq	ZeroMQ high-performance messaging

AI & Machine Learning

Shortcut	Description
openai	OpenAI (ChatGPT, GPT-4) integration
anthropic	Anthropic Claude integration
ollama	Ollama local LLM integration
azure-openai	Azure OpenAI integration
bedrock	Amazon Bedrock AI integration
vertex-ai	Google Vertex AI Gemini integration
mistral	Mistral AI integration
pgvector	PostgreSQL vector database for AI
langchain4j	LangChain for Java (LLM orchestration)
pinecone	Pinecone vector database client
weaviate	Weaviate vector database client
qdrant	Qdrant vector database client
chroma	Chroma vector database client
djl	Deep Java Library (Amazon ML toolkit)
weka	Weka Machine Learning algorithms
corenlp	Stanford CoreNLP (NLP processing)

Cloud Providers

Shortcut	Description
aws-s3	Amazon S3 file storage
aws-sqs	Amazon Simple Queue Service
aws-ses	Amazon Simple Email Service
aws-sns	Amazon Simple Notification Service
aws-dynamodb	Amazon DynamoDB NoSQL database
aws-lambda	Amazon Lambda serverless
aws-cognito	Amazon Cognito authentication
aws-secretsmanager	Amazon Secrets Manager
aws-cloudwatch	Amazon CloudWatch monitoring
aws-kinesis	Amazon Kinesis streaming
gcp-storage	Google Cloud Storage
gcp-pubsub	Google Cloud Pub/Sub
gcp-bigquery	Google BigQuery
gcp-firestore	Google Firestore
gcp-secretmanager	Google Secret Manager
gcp-functions	Google Cloud Functions
azure-storage	Azure Blob Storage
azure-servicebus	Azure Service Bus
azure-keyvault	Azure Key Vault
azure-cosmosdb	Azure Cosmos DB
azure-functions	Azure Functions

Notifications

Shortcut	Description
twilio	SMS, WhatsApp, Voice API
sendgrid	SendGrid email delivery
mailersend	MailerSend transactional email
mailgun	Mailgun email delivery
firebase-admin	Firebase push notifications
pusher	Pusher real-time messaging
slack	Slack API integration
discord	Discord bot integration
telegram	Telegram bot API
onesignal	OneSignal push notifications

Payments

Shortcut	Description
stripe	Stripe payment processing
paypal	PayPal payment SDK
braintree	Braintree payment processing
square	Square payment processing
razorpay	Razorpay payment gateway
mollie	Mollie payment gateway
adyen	Adyen payment platform

Search

Shortcut	Description
algolia	Algolia search-as-a-service
meilisearch	Meilisearch open-source search
typesense	Typesense typo-tolerant search
solr	Apache Solr enterprise search
opensearch	OpenSearch (Elasticsearch fork)

Observability (Extended)

Shortcut	Description
opentelemetry	OpenTelemetry distributed tracing
jaeger	Distributed tracing with Jaeger
sentry	Sentry error tracking
loki	Grafana Loki logging
grafana	Grafana LGTM metrics
micrometer	Prometheus metrics exporter

Developer Tools (Extended)

Shortcut	Description
mapstruct	MapStruct bean mapping
openapi	SpringDoc OpenAPI (Swagger UI)
commons-lang	Apache Commons Lang
guava	Google Guava
modelmapper	ModelMapper
config-processor	IDE support for @ConfigurationProperties
native	GraalVM native image support
vavr	Functional programming library
immutables	Immutable object generation
record-builder	Builder pattern for Java records
jmolecules	DDD architectural concepts
spotbugs	SpotBugs static analysis
error-prone	Error Prone static analysis
checker-qual	Checker Framework annotations

Testing (Extended)

Shortcut	Description
test	Spring Boot Test
security-test	Spring Security Test
mockito	Mockito mocking
wiremock	WireMock HTTP mock server
rest-assured	REST Assured API testing
assertj	AssertJ fluent assertions
awaitility	Awaitility async testing
archunit	ArchUnit architecture testing
jsonassert	JSONAssert comparison
gatling	Gatling load testing
jmh	JMH microbenchmark harness
faker	DataFaker test data generation
greenmail	GreenMail email testing
selenium	Selenium browser automation
selenide	Selenide concise UI tests
playwright	Microsoft Playwright browser automation
cucumber	Cucumber BDD testing
hoverfly	Hoverfly API simulation
pact	Pact consumer-driven contract testing

Utilities

Shortcut	Description
jsoup	HTML parsing and web scraping
zxing	QR code and barcode generation
thumbnailator	Image resizing and processing
jasperreports	Report generation
jfreechart	Chart generation
opencsv	CSV parsing and writing
snakeyaml	YAML parsing
commonmark	Markdown parsing
flexmark	Advanced Markdown processor
protobuf	Google Protocol Buffers
avro	Apache Avro serialization
msgpack	MessagePack binary format
kryo	Fast binary serialization
jaxb	XML binding (Java 11+)
dom4j	XML parsing
xstream	XML serialization
jsch	SSH and SFTP client
sshj	Modern SSH client
libphonenumber	Phone number validation
slug	URL slug generation
emoji	Emoji parsing
joda-time	Date/time library (legacy)
jna	Java Native Access
commons-io	Apache Commons IO
jackson-datatype	Jackson Java 8 datatypes
apache-poi	Microsoft Office file handling
itext	PDF generation and manipulation
minio	S3-compatible object storage client
json-path	JSON path query library

Workflow

Shortcut	Description
camunda	Camunda workflow automation
flowable	Flowable BPMN engine
temporal	Temporal workflow orchestration

Microservices

Shortcut	Description
spring-cloud-stream	Spring Cloud Stream (Kafka/RabbitMQ)
spring-cloud-bus	Spring Cloud Bus state broadcast
spring-cloud-function	Spring Cloud Function serverless
spring-retry	Spring Retry logic
shedlock	ShedLock distributed scheduling lock
etcd	Etcd distributed key-value
zookeeper	Apache Zookeeper client
dapr	Dapr distributed runtime SDK
grpc-server	gRPC server starter

Caching

Shortcut	Description
caffeine	Caffeine high-performance cache
ehcache	Ehcache enterprise caching
infinispan	Infinispan data grid
hazelcast-jet	Hazelcast Jet stream processing

Scheduling

Shortcut	Description
jobrunr	JobRunr distributed jobs
db-scheduler	DB Scheduler persistent tasks
scheduler	Task scheduling with @Scheduled

API Documentation

Shortcut	Description
springdoc	SpringDoc OpenAPI 3
netflix-dgs	Netflix DGS GraphQL
asyncapi	AsyncAPI event-driven docs
json-schema	JSON Schema validation
graphql-kickstart	GraphQL Kickstart starter

Logging

Shortcut	Description
logback	Logback logging framework
log4j2	Apache Log4j 2 logging
slf4j	SLF4J logging facade

Quality

Shortcut	Description
jacoco	JaCoCo code coverage
checkstyle	Checkstyle coding standards
spotless	Spotless code formatting
pmd	PMD source code analyzer
sonar	SonarQube integration

DevOps

Shortcut	Description
jib	Google Jib Docker builds
docker-java	Docker Java API
kubernetes-client	Kubernetes Java client
fabric8	Fabric8 Kubernetes client

Feature Flags

Shortcut	Description
unleash	Unleash feature toggle
launchdarkly	LaunchDarkly feature flags
flagsmith	Flagsmith feature flags
togglz	Togglz feature flags for Spring
ff4j	FF4J feature flipping

Maps & Geo

Shortcut	Description
google-maps	Google Maps Server SDK
mapbox	Mapbox Java SDK
graphhopper	GraphHopper routing engine
h3	Uber H3 Hexagonal Spatial Index
jts	JTS Topology Suite (geometry)
geotools	GeoTools geospatial data tools
ip2location	IP2Location geo lookup
maxmind	MaxMind GeoIP2 database

Media

Shortcut	Description
ffmpeg	FFmpeg video/audio processing
opencv	OpenCV computer vision
pdfbox	Apache PDFBox PDF handling
tika	Apache Tika content detection
docx4j	Docx4j Word/PowerPoint files
openhtmltopdf	OpenHTMLtoPDF converter
batik	Apache Batik SVG tools
metadata-extractor	Image metadata extraction
imgscalr	ImgScalr image scaling
jxls	JXLS Excel templates
flying-saucer	Flying Saucer XHTML to PDF
barcode4j	Barcode4J barcode generation

Fintech

Shortcut	Description
web3j	Web3j Ethereum integration
bitcoinj	BitcoinJ Bitcoin protocol
plaid	Plaid bank account linking
xchange	XChange crypto exchange library
stellar	Stellar network SDK

Social

Shortcut	Description
facebook-sdk	Facebook Graph API
twitter-api	Twitter/X API v2
linkedin-api	LinkedIn API
zoom	Zoom API integration
agora	Agora real-time video/audio
matrix	Matrix.org decentralized chat

Data Processing

Shortcut	Description
spark	Apache Spark Java API
flink	Apache Flink stream processing
hadoop	Hadoop client libraries
tablesaw	Tablesaw Java Dataframes
commons-math	Apache Commons Math
nd4j	ND4J N-Dimensional Arrays
joda-money	Joda-Money currency handling
jgrapht	JGraphT graph algorithms

IoT

Shortcut	Description
mqtt-paho	Eclipse Paho MQTT client
spring-integration-mqtt	Spring Integration MQTT
coap	Californium CoAP protocol
modbus	Modbus industrial protocol
pi4j	Pi4J Raspberry Pi control

Ops

Shortcut	Description
actuator	Spring Boot Actuator for monitoring
micrometer	Micrometer Prometheus metrics exporter

Template Engines

Shortcut	Description
thymeleaf	Thymeleaf server-side HTML templating
freemarker	FreeMarker template engine
mustache	Mustache template engine

Content

Shortcut	Description
rome	Rome RSS and Atom feed parser
htmlunit	HtmlUnit headless browser
bliki	Bliki Wikipedia syntax parser
emoji-java	Emoji Java string handling

Networking

Shortcut	Description
netty	Netty async event-driven network framework
pcap4j	Pcap4J packet capture library
dns-java	dnsjava DNS protocol implementation

Integration

Shortcut	Description
spring-integration	Spring Integration EIP patterns
apache-camel	Apache Camel integration framework
spring-cloud-data-flow	Spring Cloud Data Flow orchestration
spring-cloud-task	Spring Cloud Task short-lived microservices

API

Shortcut	Description
springdoc	SpringDoc OpenAPI 3 generation
asyncapi	AsyncAPI event-driven documentation
netflix-dgs	Netflix DGS GraphQL framework
avro-serializer	Avro serialization for Kafka schemas
json-schema	JSON Schema validation
graphql-kickstart	GraphQL Kickstart starter

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Using Dependencies

With haft add

# Interactive search picker
haft add

# Browse by category
haft add --browse

# Add by shortcut
haft add lombok jpa validation

# Add multiple at once
haft add jwt openapi mapstruct

# Add by Maven coordinates (auto-verified against Maven Central)
haft add org.mapstruct:mapstruct

# Add with specific version
haft add io.jsonwebtoken:jjwt-api:0.12.5

# Add with scope override
haft add h2 --scope test

# List all shortcuts
haft add --list

Adding Any Maven Central Dependency

You can add any dependency from Maven Central using Maven coordinates format:

# Format: groupId:artifactId
haft add org.apache.commons:commons-collections4

# Format: groupId:artifactId:version
haft add com.google.code.gson:gson:2.10.1

# Multiple coordinates
haft add org.modelmapper:modelmapper io.github.cdimascio:dotenv-java

Haft automatically:

• Verifies the dependency exists on Maven Central
• Fetches the latest version if not specified
• Adds to your pom.xml or build.gradle with correct format

# This will fetch latest version automatically
$ haft add org.mapstruct:mapstruct
SUCCESS ✓ Added dependency=org.mapstruct:mapstruct:1.5.5.Final

# Error if dependency doesn't exist
$ haft add com.fake:nonexistent
ERROR ✗ dependency 'com.fake:nonexistent' not found on Maven Central

With haft remove

# Interactive picker
haft remove

# Remove by artifact name
haft remove lombok

# Remove by suffix (jpa matches spring-boot-starter-data-jpa)
haft rm jpa web

# Remove by coordinates
haft rm org.projectlombok:lombok

In Interactive Mode (haft init)

1. Navigate to the Dependencies step
2. Use / to search
3. Use Tab or 0-9 for categories
4. Press Space to select
5. Press Enter to confirm

In Non-Interactive Mode

haft init my-app --deps web,data-jpa,lombok,validation

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Popular Combinations

REST API

haft init my-api --deps web,data-jpa,validation,lombok
haft add jwt openapi

Microservice

haft init my-service --deps web,actuator,cloud-config-client,cloud-eureka-client
haft add resilience4j opentelemetry

Reactive Application

haft init my-reactive --deps webflux,data-mongodb-reactive,security

AI Application

haft init my-ai-app --deps web,lombok
haft add openai langchain4j pgvector

Batch Processing

haft init my-batch --deps batch,data-jpa,postgresql
haft add jobrunr

Full-Stack with Auth

haft init my-fullstack --deps web,data-jpa,security,thymeleaf,lombok
haft add jwt passay