Spring Boot BOM for non boot spring project

Question

I'd like to use spring boot specific BOM for my non-boot spring project. Is it acceptable to include spring-boot-dependencies or platform-bom and what's better?

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-dependencies</artifactId>
        <version>...</version>
        <type>pom</type>
        <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>

or

    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.spring.platform</groupId>
        <artifactId>platform-bom</artifactId>
        <version>...</version>
        <type>pom</type>
        <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>

Thanks.

Answer 1

Both are valid approaches.

To quote the Spring IO Platform documentation :

Spring IO Platform builds on top of Spring Boot

So, they provide what you search for a non spring boot application : a set of consistent dependencies and some specific beans provided by Spring Boot.

Now, personally, I would chose org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-dependencies as Spring Boot is mature, have an important and active community and is often updated.
See the spring-boot github. It is not the case of the spring-io/platform.