Warin G. - Mastering Spring MVC 4

Geoffroy Warin has been programming since he was 10. A firm believer in the Software Craftsmanship movement and open source initiatives, he is a developer by choice and conviction. He has been working on the conception of enterprise-level web applications in Java and JavaScript throughout the course of his career.

At ease with both the backend and frontend, Geoffroy has a strong focus on Clean Code and testability. He believes that developers should strive for readable code that delivers constant value to their customers.

Pair programming and mentorship are his primary tools to promote a test-driven development approach and create great software designs.

He also teaches courses on Java web stacks and is a Groovy and Spring enthusiast.

Lately, he has been part of the reviewing team for Learning Spring Boot and Spring Boot Cookbook , both by Packt Publishing, which cover the latest major additions to the Spring ecosystem.

Check out his blog at http://geowarin.github.io and his Twitter account at https://twitter.com/geowarin for fresh Spring and JavaScript programming tips.

I'd like to thank Laure, my life partner, who approved my late nights of writing, and my colleagues at Bi-SAM, who have been nothing but supportive of my project.

Raymundo Armendariz is a software developer with over 10 years of experience in building software for Java and .NET platforms, but he is currently devoted to JavaScript.

He is the author of a book based on a JavaScirpt micro-famework.

He has been working for the automotive industry for the most part of his professional life. He has worked for companies such as Autozone, Alldata, TRW, and 1A Auto.

He is the author of Getting Started with Backbone Marionette , Packt Publishing , which can be found at https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/getting-started-backbone-marionette.

I would like to thank my friends for their help and support.

Abu Kamruzzaman is a web programmer and database analyst at The City University of New York. For over 10 years, he has developed and maintained web applications for class grading and registration that can be used by colleges and universities. Since November 2014, he has been working as a PeopleSoft development specialist for CUNY's central office. His current project is about building Data Warehouse for CUNY using OBIEE with the Business Intelligence team. Before joining the central office, he worked at various CUNY campuses since 2001. He also teaches graduate and undergraduate IT courses, instructing the very students who depend on his applications. Since 2001, he has been teaching courses on J2EE, DBMS, data warehouse, object-oriented programming, web design, and web programming. He is a faculty member of the Department of Computer Information Systems at Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business. He has a passion for education and a great interest in open source technologies, such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, NoSQL databases, Java, cloud computing, and mobile app development. He received his master's degree from Brooklyn College/CUNY and his bachelor's degree in computer science from Binghamton University/SUNY. His web address is http://faculty.baruch.cuny.edu/akamruzzaman/.

I want to thank my sweet and beautiful wife, Nicole Woods, Esq., for her constant patience, support, and encouragement in everything I do. Thanks to my sweet parents for their blessings and constant prayers. I would also like to thank the author and the Packt Publishing team for giving me the opportunity to work on this book.

Jean-Pol Landrain holds a BSc degree in software engineering with an orientation in network and real-time and distributed computing since 1998. He gradually became a software architect with more than 17 years of experience in object-oriented programming, in particular with C++, Java/JEE, various application servers, operating systems (Windows and Linux), and related technologies.

He works for Agile Partner, an IT consulting company based in Luxembourg, which is already dedicated to the promotion, education, and application of agile development methodologies since 2006. Over the last 5 years, he has participated in the selection and the validation of tools and technologies targeting the development teams of the European Parliament.

He also collaborated with Packt Publishing to review HornetQ Messaging Developer's Guide and with Manning Publishing to review Docker in Action , Git in Practice , ActiveMq in Action , and Spring in Action , First Edition.

First, I would like to thank my wife, Marie Smets, and my 9-year-old daughter, Phoebe, for their understanding regarding my passion for technology and the time I dedicate to it. I would also like to thank my friends and colleagues at Agile Partner because a life dedicated to technology would be boring without the fun they bring to it.

Unfortunately, I lost my grandfather, Andr Landrain, and my grandmother, Hlne Guffens, during the elaboration of this book. My thoughts go out to them and to those of you who have lost loved ones. A big thank you goes to the editorial team at Packt Publishing for their patience with the work that was delayed because of these personal events, particularly Nidhi Joshi, the project coordinator, and Geoffroy Warin, the author of this book. They have done fantastic work together and I have absolutely no doubt that you will appreciate the quality of this book. You may well have the best publication so far on Spring MVC in your hands.

Wayne Lund is a PaaS and field engineer for Pivotal. He has over 25 years of experience in enterprise software development and distributed environments, majorly specializing in Spring, Enterprise Java, Groovy, and Grails and extending to systems built with Smalltalk and C++, always with an emphasis on custom and emerging technologies. His objective is to continue enjoying the next great generation of technology with PaaS along with the new generations of the Spring portfolio. This includes an expertise in the Cloud Native applications built with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring XD so as to enable Fast Data, Big Data, social, and mobile.