Summary

Spring in Action, Fourth Edition is a hands-on guide to the Spring Framework, updated for version 4. It covers the latest features, tools, and practices including Spring MVC, REST, Security, Web Flow, and more. You'll move between short snippets and an ongoing example as you learn to build simple and efficient J2EE applications. Author Craig Walls has a special knack for crisp and entertaining examples that zoom in on the features and techniques you really need.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Designed in 2003 as a lighter approach to J2EE development, Spring Framework has since become a standard choice for building enterprise applications and required knowledge for Java developers. Spring 4, the latest major version, provides full Java 8 integration along with key upgrades like new annotations for the IoC container, improvements to Spring Expression Language, and much-needed support for REST. Whether you're just discovering Spring or you want to absorb the new features, there's no better way to master Spring than with this book.

About the Book

Spring in Action, Fourth Edition is a hands-on guide to the Spring Framework. It covers Spring core, along with the latest updates to Spring MVC, Security, Web Flow, and more. You'll move between short snippets and an ongoing example as you learn to build simple and efficient JEE applications. Author Craig Walls has a special knack for crisp and entertaining examples that zoom in on the features and techniques you really need.

Nearly 100,000 developers have used this book to learn Spring! It requires a working knowledge of Java.

What's Inside

Updated for Spring 4
Spring Data for NoSQL
Simplifying configuration with annotations and definition profiles
Working with RESTful resources

About the Author

Craig Walls is a software developer at Pivotal. He's a popular author and a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences. Craig lives in Cross Roads, Texas.

Table of Contents

PART 1 CORE SPRING

Springing into action
Wiring beans
Advanced wiring
Aspect-oriented Spring
PART 2 SPRING ON THE WEB
Building Spring web applications
Rendering web views
Advanced Spring MVC
Working with Spring Web Flow
Securing web applications
PART 3 SPRING IN THE BACKEND
Hitting the database with Spring and JDBC
Persisting data with object-relational mapping
Working with NoSQL databases
Caching data
Securing methods

PART 4 INTEGRATING SPRING

Working with remote services
Creating REST APIs with Spring MVC
Messaging in Spring
Messaging with WebSocket and STOMP
Sending email with Spring
Managing Spring beans with JMX
Simplifying Spring development with Spring Boot

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