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Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By : James J. Ye
Book Image

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2

By: James J. Ye

Overview of this book

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2, with its practical approach, helps you become a full-stack web developer. As well as knowing how to write frontend and backend code, a developer has to tackle all problems encountered in the application development life cycle – starting from the simple idea of an application, to the UI and technical designs, and all the way to implementation, testing, production deployment, and monitoring. With the help of this book, you'll get to grips with Spring 5 and Vue.js 2 as you learn how to develop a web application. From the initial structuring to full deployment, you’ll be guided at every step of developing a web application from scratch with Vue.js 2 and Spring 5. You’ll learn how to create different components of your application as you progress through each chapter, followed by exploring different tools in these frameworks to expedite your development cycle. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a complete understanding of the key design patterns and best practices that underpin professional full-stack web development.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Spring 5 - The Right Stack for the Job at Hand

The Spring Framework is a de facto standard for creating Java EE applications. It is lightweight, compared to its earlier competitor, EJB (short for Enterprise JavaBeans). In his book, Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB, Rod Johnson, the creator of Spring Framework, wrote the following:

Lightweight Inversion of Control containers have huge benefits for implementing J2EE applications. I believe that Inversion of Control, along with AOP, provides the basis for next-generation J2EE architectures.

And that was in 2004. He was right. In the past 16 years, since the initial release of the framework in 2002, Spring has become the first choice of frameworks that people use to build Java EE applications. And, with Spring Boot, building Spring applications has become much easier and more productive than ever before.

In this chapter, we will cover the fundamental concepts of Spring Framework 5. And you will do the following:

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