The DispatcherServlet is the front controller in the Spring MVC framework, routing incoming HTTP requests to appropriate handlers.Spring Boot simplifies web application development by providing conventions over configurations and automatic setups.Layered architecture in Spring Boot separates applications into Controller, Service, and Repository layers for better organization.Maven aids in dependency management by automating the download and management of project libraries.Maven follows a lifecycle with various phases, where each phase represents a step in the build process.The @SpringBootApplication annotation conveniently combines multiple annotations in Spring Boot applications.@Controller returns view names, while @RestController is used to return data directly as the response body.@RequestMapping, @GetMapping, and @PostMapping are annotations for mapping HTTP requests to specific methods in Spring controllers.In Spring Boot, a Bean is a Java object managed by the Spring container and can be defined using annotations or configuration classes.The Inversion of Control (IoC) container in Spring handles object creation, dependency injection, and lifecycle management.