A starter is a shopping basket, not a shop: it carries libraries, not logic.

A starter is mostly a pom that lists the libraries a feature needs, such as MVC, a server, Jackson and logging. The parent or BOM decides which versions go together, which is why the dependency has no version tag. Turning your classes into one runnable jar is a different job, done by a build plugin.

Read it once, then a question tests whether the trick stuck.