Pro Spring 5: An In-Depth Guide to the Spring Framework and Its Tools, 5th Edition

Master Spring basics and core topics, and share the authors’ insights and real–world experiences with remoting, Hibernate, and EJB. Beyond the basics, you’ll learn how to leverage the Spring Framework to build the various tiers and parts of an enterprise Java application: transactions, web and presentation tiers, deployment, and much more. A full sample application allows you to apply many of the technologies and techniques covered in Pro Spring 5 and see how they work together.

This book updates the perennial bestseller with the latest that the new Spring Framework 5 has to offer. Now in its fifth edition, this popular title is by far the most comprehensive and definitive treatment of Spring available. It covers the new functional web framework and interoperability with Java 9.

After reading this definitive book, you’ll be armed with the power of Spring to build complex Spring applications, top to bottom.

The agile, lightweight, open-source Spring Framework

continues to be the de facto leading enterprise Java application development framework for today’s Java programmers and developers. It works with other leading open-source, agile, and lightweight Java technologies such as Hibernate, Groovy, MyBatis, and more. Spring now works with Java EE and JPA 2 as well.

What You’ll Learn

• Discover what’s new in Spring Framework 5
• Use the Spring Framework with Java 9
• Master data access and transactions
• Work with the new functional web framework
• Create microservices and other web services

Who This Book Is For

Experienced Java and enterprise Java developers and programmers. Some experience with Spring highly recommended.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introducing Spring
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Chapter 3: Introducing IoC and DI in Spring
Chapter 4: Spring Configuration in Detail and Spring Boot
Chapter 5: Introducing Spring AOP
Chapter 6: Spring JDBC Support
Chapter 7: Using Hibernate in Spring
Chapter 8: Data Access in Spring with JPA2
Chapter 9: Transaction Management
Chapter 10: Validation with Type Conversion and Formatting
Chapter 11: Task Scheduling
Chapter 12: Using Spring Remoting
Chapter 13: Spring Testing
Chapter 14: Scripting Support in Spring
Chapter 15: Application Monitoring
Chapter 16: Web Applications
Chapter 17: WebSocket
Chapter 18: Spring Projects: Batch, Integration, XD, and More
Appendix A: Setting Up Your Development Environment