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Spring Boot 2.0 Projects

By : Mohamed Shazin Sadakath
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Spring Boot 2.0 Projects

By: Mohamed Shazin Sadakath

Overview of this book

Spring Boot is a lightweight framework that provides a set of tools to create production-grade applications and services. Spring Boot 2.0 Projects is a comprehensive project-based guide for those who are new to Spring, that will get you up to speed with building real-world projects. Complete with clear step-by-step instructions, these easy-to-follow tutorials demonstrate best practices and key insights into building efficient applications with Spring Boot. The book starts off by teaching you how to develop a web application using Spring Boot, followed by giving you an understanding of creating a Spring Boot-based simple blog management system that uses Elasticsearch as the data store. Next, you’ll build a RESTful web services application using Kotlin and the Spring WebFlux framework - a new framework that enables you to create reactive applications in a functional way. Toward the last few chapters, you will build a taxi-hailing API with reactive microservices using Spring Boot, in addition to developing a Twitter clone with the help of a Spring Boot backend. To build on your knowledge further, you’ll also learn how to construct an asynchronous email formatter. By the end of this book, you’ll have a firm foundation in Spring programming and understand how to build powerful, engaging applications in Java using the Spring Boot framework.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Getting started

In this section, readers will get an overview of a RESTful API being developed. The requirements, design, and implementation details will be discussed in brief.

REST architecture

Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style that defines a set of good practices, standards, and properties that can be implemented on top of the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). A web service that conforms to REST standards enables easy interoperability between devices on the internet.

RESTful web services enable client devices to produce and consume web resources, which are represented by using text with a uniform and predefined set of stateless operations. Web resources were defined by Tim Berners-Lee to...