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Spring 5.0 Cookbook

By : Sherwin John C. Tragura
Book Image

Spring 5.0 Cookbook

By: Sherwin John C. Tragura

Overview of this book

The Spring framework has been the go-to framework for Java developers for quite some time. It enhances modularity, provides more readable code, and enables the developer to focus on developing the application while the underlying framework takes care of transaction APIs, remote APIs, JMX APIs, and JMS APIs. The upcoming version of the Spring Framework has a lot to offer, above and beyond the platform upgrade to Java 9, and this book will show you all you need to know to overcome common to advanced problems you might face. Each recipe will showcase some old and new issues and solutions, right from configuring Spring 5.0 container to testing its components. Most importantly, the book will highlight concurrent processes, asynchronous MVC and reactive programming using Reactor Core APIs. Aside from the core components, this book will also include integration of third-party technologies that are mostly needed in building enterprise applications. By the end of the book, the reader will not only be well versed with the essential concepts of Spring, but will also have mastered its latest features in a solution-oriented manner.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Building a Spring 5 application using Kotlin


The last recipe of this chapter will be about a new feature integrated into the new platform of Spring 5, Kotlin. This is a JVM language created by JetBrains that can work with some Java APIs. This Kotlin extension is another powerful and concise option for writing a Spring 5 application that is at par with the Java-based style when it comes to performance and quality. Its short and readable language makes developers focus more on high-level requirements rather than the complex programming how-tos. This recipe will illustrate how to create Spring 5 applications with Reactive services using Kotlin.

Getting ready

Create the last Maven project for this chapter, ch12-kot, which will provide with us a microservice written in Kotlin.

How to do it...

Let us build a Spring 5 reactive web project using Kotlin by performing the following steps:

  1. Convert the ch12-kot project to Spring Boot 2.0 by adding the parent starter POM of Spring Boot 2.0.0M2, including...