diff --git a/spring-boot-rest/pom.xml b/spring-boot-rest/pom.xml
index bcd0381603..cf4ac0371b 100644
--- a/spring-boot-rest/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-rest/pom.xml
@@ -25,31 +25,16 @@
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-            <artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
-            <artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
+      
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
             <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-            <artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
-            <artifactId>spring-data-commons</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-
+       <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
+        </dependency>    
+    
         <!-- util -->
 
         <dependency>
diff --git a/spring-boot-rest/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/PersistenceConfig.java b/spring-boot-rest/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/PersistenceConfig.java
index 4a4b9eee3f..5179c66978 100644
--- a/spring-boot-rest/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/PersistenceConfig.java
+++ b/spring-boot-rest/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/PersistenceConfig.java
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
 @EnableTransactionManagement
 @PropertySource({ "classpath:persistence-${envTarget:h2}.properties" })
 @ComponentScan({ "com.baeldung.persistence" })
-// @ImportResource("classpath*:springDataPersistenceConfig.xml")
 @EnableJpaRepositories(basePackages = "com.baeldung.persistence.dao")
 public class PersistenceConfig {
 
diff --git a/spring-boot-rest/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/WebConfig.java b/spring-boot-rest/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/WebConfig.java
index 39aade174b..80ee975e84 100644
--- a/spring-boot-rest/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/WebConfig.java
+++ b/spring-boot-rest/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/WebConfig.java
@@ -1,43 +1,10 @@
 package com.baeldung.spring;
 
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
-import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.ViewResolver;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ContentNegotiationConfigurer;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ViewControllerRegistry;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurer;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver;
+
 
 @Configuration
-@ComponentScan("com.baeldung.web")
-@EnableWebMvc
 public class WebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
 
-    public WebConfig() {
-        super();
-    }
-
-    @Bean
-    public ViewResolver viewResolver() {
-        final InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
-        viewResolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/view/");
-        viewResolver.setSuffix(".jsp");
-        return viewResolver;
-    }
-
-    // API
-    @Override
-    public void addViewControllers(final ViewControllerRegistry registry) {
-        registry.addViewController("/graph.html");
-        registry.addViewController("/homepage.html");
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void configureContentNegotiation(ContentNegotiationConfigurer configurer) {
-        configurer.defaultContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);
-    }
-
 }
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diff --git a/spring-boot-rest/src/main/resources/springDataPersistenceConfig.xml b/spring-boot-rest/src/main/resources/springDataPersistenceConfig.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ea2d9c05b..0000000000
--- a/spring-boot-rest/src/main/resources/springDataPersistenceConfig.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:jpa="http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa"
-    xsi:schemaLocation="
-    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
-    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
-    http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa 
-    http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa.xsd"
->
-
-    <jpa:repositories base-package="com.baeldung.persistence.dao"/>
-
-</beans>
\ No newline at end of file