Mastering Spring 5.0

Develop cloud native applications with microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Cloud Data Flow About This Book Explore the new features and components in Spring Evolve towards micro services and cloud native applications Gain powerful insights into advanced concepts of Spring and Spring Boot to develop applications more effectively Understand the basics of Kotlin and use it to develop a quick service with Spring Boot Who This Book Is For This book is for an experienced Java developer who knows the basics of Spring, and wants to learn how to use Spring Boot to build applications and deploy them to the cloud. What You Will Learn Explore the new features in Spring Framework 5.0 Build microservices with Spring Boot Get to know the advanced features of Spring Boot in order to effectively develop and monitor applications Use Spring Cloud to deploy and manage applications on the Cloud Understand Spring Data and Spring Cloud Data Flow Understand the basics of reactive programming Get to know the best practices when developing applications with the Spring Framework Create a new project using Kotlin and implement a couple of basic services with unit and integration testing In Detail Spring 5.0 is due to arrive with a myriad of new and exciting features that will change the way we've used the framework so far. This book will show you this evolution--from solving the problems of testable applications to building distributed applications on the cloud. The book begins with an insight into the new features in Spring 5.0 and shows you how to build an application using Spring MVC. You will realize how application architectures have evolved from monoliths to those built around microservices. You will then get a thorough understanding of how to build and extend microservices using Spring Boot. You will also understand how to build and deploy Cloud-Native microservices with Spring Cloud. The advanced features of Spring Boot will be illustrated through powerful examples. We will be introduced to a JVM language that's quickly gaining popularity - Kotlin. Also, we will discuss how to set up a Kotlin project in Eclipse. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the knowledge and best practices required to develop microservices with the Spring Framework. Style and approach This book follows an end-to-end tutorial approach with lots of examples and sample applications, covering the major building blocks of the Spring framework. Downloading the ...

Cover; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Customer Feedback; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Evolution to Spring Framework 5.0; Spring Framework; Problems with EJB; Why is Spring Framework popular?; Simplified unit testing; Reduction in plumbing code; How does Spring Framework do this magic?; Architectural flexibility; Keep up with changing times; Spring modules; Spring Core Container; Cross-cutting concerns; Web; Business; Data; Spring Projects; Spring Boot; Spring Cloud; Spring Data; Spring Batch; Spring Security; Spring HATEOAS.

New features in Spring Framework 5.0Baseline upgrades; JDK 9 runtime compatibility; Usage of JDK 8 features in Spring Framework code; Reactive programming support; Functional web framework; Java modularity with Jigsaw; Kotlin support; Dropped features; Spring Boot 2.0 new features; Summary; Chapter 2: Dependency Injection; Understanding dependency injection; Understanding dependencies; The Spring IoC container; Defining beans and wiring; Creating a Spring IoC container; Java configuration for the application context; A quick review; Launching the application context with Java configuration.

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