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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

Kotlin


Kotlin is an open source, statically-typed language that can be used to build applications that run on the JVM, Android, and JavaScript platforms. Kotlin is developed by JetBrains under the Apache 2.0 license and the source code is available on GitHub (https://github.com/jetbrains/kotlin).

A couple of quotes from Andrey Breslav, the lead language designer for Kotlin, are listed as follows. These help us understand the thought process behind Kotlin:

The primary purpose of Project Kotlin is to create for developers a general-purpose language that can serve as a useful tool that is safe, concise, flexible, and 100 percent Java-compatible.

Kotlin is designed to be an industrial-strength object-oriented language, and a "better language" than Java, but still be fully interoperable with Java code, allowing companies to make a gradual migration from Java to Kotlin.

Kotlin is one of the official languages supported by Android. The official Android developer page for Kotlin (https://developer.android...