Spring Start Here: Learn what you need and learn it well

Quickly master the massive Spring ecosystem with this focused, hands-on guide that teaches you exactly what you need to know.

In Spring Start Here, you will learn how to:

• Build web applications with Spring
• Manage application objects with Spring context
• Implement data persistence using data sources and transactions
• Implement data exchange between applications using REST services
• Utilize Spring Boot's convention-over-configuration approach
• Write unit and integration tests for apps implemented with Spring
• Minimize work when building any kind of app
• Persisting data in a Spring application using the latest approach

Spring Start Here introduces you to Java development with Spring by concentrating on the core concepts you'll use in every application you build. You'll learn how to refactor an existing application to Spring, how to use Spring tools to make SQL database requests and REST calls, and how to secure your projects with Spring Security. There's always more to learn, and this book will make your next steps much easier.