Greg L. Turnquist - Hacking with Spring Boot 2.4: Classic Edition

Hacking with Spring Boot 2.4:
Classic Edition

2021 Greg L. Turnquist

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Published: April 2021

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Spring Boot has been such a success that its probably not wrong now to describe it in 2021 as "mainstream". Practically every Java developer will know something about it, and many, maybe even the majority, will have used it in anger. But theres always something new to learn, and there are always new problems to solve in software engineering - thats what makes it so rewarding in the end. Theres always something new to invent, too, and having the skill and opportunity to create code is extremely rewarding, intellectually and in other ways. One of the goals of Spring Boot is shared with the author of this book, and that is to get your ideas down into code as quickly and efficiently as possible, so you can get it to the most special place: Production. I wish you a short and pleasant journey, or maybe a long series of short and pleasant journeys.

In this book Greg has used his insider advantage to add Spring Boot knowledge to some old, well-seasoned favourite problems that you all will have experienced as Java developers. What better way to learn than to look at it through the lens of tasks that we all have to solve, nearly every day: creating HTTP endpoints, securing them, connecting to databases, writing tests, sending messages? The book adds some new angles to these old chestnuts by applying some modern ideas and tools, so read it and you will learn about things like hypermedia and OpenID, all from the most practical and pragmatic of standpoints.

There are more things to Spring Boot than just main methods, embedded containers, autoconfiguration and management endpoints. The pure joy of getting started with a fully featured Spring application in a few lines of code cannot be understated, for instance. I invite you to dip into this book, break out an editor or an IDE and crank up some applications for yourself. Greg has been an important member of the Spring Boot team, despite having a day job doing other things in the Spring Engineering effort, and we can be grateful for that as well as the effort he has lavished on this excellent book. He has always been an educator and an informer, as well as an engineer, and this shows through very clearly in the book. When I read it I can hear Gregs voice, and his personality, very clearly, and it is always calm, but enthusiastic, with a touch of humour. Read it yourself and enjoy - coding with Spring is still fun after all these years!

Dr. Dave Syer
Senior Consulting Engineer and co-founder of Spring Boot

Greg L. Turnquist works on the Spring team as a principal developer at VMware. He is a committer to Spring HATEOAS, Spring Data, Spring Boot, R2DBC, and Spring Session for MongoDB. He wrote Hacking with Spring Boot 2.3: Reactive Edition as well as Packts best-selling title, Learning Spring Boot 2.0 2nd Edition. He co-founded the Nashville Java User Group in 2010 and hasnt met a Java app (yet) that he doesnt like.

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Chapter 1, Building a Web App with Spring Boot - Learn how to build web applications using Spring MVC.

Chapter 2, Data Access with Spring Boot - Access data stores using Spring Data.

Chapter 3, Developer Tools for Spring Boot - Enhance your developer experience with all the tools afforded by Spring Boot.

Chapter 4, Testing with Spring Boot - Get a hold of testing tools and how Spring Boot empowers testing your applications.

Chapter 5, Operations with Spring Boot - See how to manage your applications after they go to production.

Chapter 6, Building APIs with Spring Boot - Build JSON-based APIs using different tactics and tools from the Spring portfolio.

Chapter 7, Messaging with Spring Boot - Create asynchronous, message-based solutions using Spring Boot and Testcontainers.

Chapter 8, Securing your Application with Spring Boot - Learn how secure your application with the most powerful tools available.

Spring Boot 2.4 supports Java 8 and higher. This book is written using Java 8. Use sdkman to install, manage, and even switch between different distributions and versions of Java.

Spring Boot 2.4 is able to bake Docker containers. There is also Docker-based testing support through 3rd party tools like Testcontainers. For those sections, youll need to install Docker.

If you use Mac, you should consider Homebrew as a package manager for certain utilities.

You need either an IDE or a good editor. Recommended options include:

This book is to help developers new to Spring Boot as well as experienced Spring developers.

It shows how to get operational, fast, with some of the best coding practices available.

It helps the reader focus on adding business value to their applications and not get distracted with infrastructure.

Adjust your e-reader to use a smaller font. This book is loaded with code examples. Attempting to show things too big will cause unneeded wrapping, culminating in a less than desirable experience.