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Mastering Spring 5.0

By : In28Minutes Official
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Mastering Spring 5.0

By: In28Minutes Official

Overview of this book

Spring 5.0 is due to arrive with a myriad of new and exciting features that will change the way we’ve used the framework so far. This book will show you this evolution—from solving the problems of testable applications to building distributed applications on the cloud. The book begins with an insight into the new features in Spring 5.0 and shows you how to build an application using Spring MVC. You will realize how application architectures have evolved from monoliths to those built around microservices. You will then get a thorough understanding of how to build and extend microservices using Spring Boot. You will also understand how to build and deploy Cloud-Native microservices with Spring Cloud. The advanced features of Spring Boot will be illustrated through powerful examples. We will be introduced to a JVM language that’s quickly gaining popularity - Kotlin. Also, we will discuss how to set up a Kotlin project in Eclipse. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the knowledge and best practices required to develop microservices with the Spring Framework.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

An overview of Spring MVC


Now that we've looked at a few basic flows with Spring MVC, we will switch our attention to understanding how these flows work. How does the magic happen with Spring MVC?

Important features

When working with the different flows, we looked at some of the important features of the Spring MVC Framework. These include the following:

  • Loosely coupled architecture with well-defined, independent roles for each of the objects.
  • Highly flexible Controller method definitions. Controller methods can have a varied range of parameters and return values. This gives flexibility to the programmer to choose the definition that meets their needs.
  • Allows the reuse of domain objects as form backing objects. Reduces the need to have separate form objects.
  • Built-in tag libraries (Spring, spring-form) with localization support.
  • Model uses a HashMap with key-value pairs. Allows integration with multiple view technologies.
  • Flexible binding. Type mismatches while binding can be handled as validation...