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Mastering Spring Boot 2.0

By : Dinesh Rajput
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Mastering Spring Boot 2.0

By: Dinesh Rajput

Overview of this book

Spring is one of the best frameworks on the market for developing web, enterprise, and cloud ready software. Spring Boot simplifies the building of complex software dramatically by reducing the amount of boilerplate code, and by providing production-ready features and a simple deployment model. This book will address the challenges related to power that come with Spring Boot's great configurability and flexibility. You will understand how Spring Boot configuration works under the hood, how to overwrite default configurations, and how to use advanced techniques to prepare Spring Boot applications to work in production. This book will also introduce readers to a relatively new topic in the Spring ecosystem – cloud native patterns, reactive programming, and applications. Get up to speed with microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. Each chapter aims to solve a specific problem or teach you a useful skillset. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in building and deploying your Spring Boot application.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter has given you a quick overview of what Spring Boot has to offer. In this chapter, we have learned how Spring Boot simplified Spring application development. Spring Boot made this magic possible by using its key components such as Spring Boot auto-configuration, Starters, Spring Boot CLI, and Spring Boot Actuator. You can take advantage of Spring Boot Starter dependencies and auto-configuration; you can do rapid development of the Spring application by just focusing only on the application logic, rather than configurations and build dependencies, libraries, and version management. Meanwhile, auto-configuration frees you from boilerplate configuration.

We have also created a very simple Hello World REST application by using the web-based Spring Initializr and Spring Tool Suite IDE, and we have run this application, where we used the embedded Tomcat container.

In Chapter 2, Customizing Auto-Configuration in Spring Boot Application, we'll dive deeper into Spring Boot auto-configuration and its customization in the Spring Boot application.