All the ideas and concepts established in the previous recipes converge into this chapter which aims to showcase Spring 5 as the tool in building a reactive and functional web application. Part of this chapter will discuss recipes on how to build a complete Spring MVC application with JDBC connectivity, logging, and view technology like JSP, Thymeleaf, and FreeMarker based on the methodology provided by Spring Boot 2.0, the main highlight. Features like implementing JPA and REST web services will also be included to show that some popular core POM starters that have been used in the previous Spring releases, are still present in this new version. Also, there will be some recipes that will be designed to compare and contrast built-in starter Maven libraries of Spring Boot 2.0 against its previous stable releases.
This chapter will also provide a concrete and practical set of procedures for building an application using the new web model, the Functional and Reactive...