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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 synchronous batch processes


The first recipe will be about building a simple batch process that transforms data from one rendition type to another. This is a typical solution to bulky, non-interactive, and routine background processes that can be a simple data transformation or a highly computational data mining algorithm that continuously harvests data using either synchronous thread pipes or parallel executors. This recipe highlights the synchronous batch process for data conversion.

Getting started

Create a new Maven project that uses spring-boot-starter-batch to create a background process that parses an XML file and transfers some filtered content to a text file.

How to do it...

Let's create a standalone application that transforms XML to a text file using the following steps:

  1. Using Eclipse STS, create a Maven project, ch11-batch-sync, that contains the Spring Boot 2.0.0.M2 starter POM dependencies, such as actuator and JDBC, with some support plugins such as the MySQL connector...