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Modern API Development with Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 - Second Edition

By : Sourabh Sharma
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Book Image

Modern API Development with Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 - Second Edition

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By: Sourabh Sharma

Overview of this book

Spring is a powerful and widely adopted framework for building scalable and reliable web applications in Java, complemented by Spring Boot, a popular extension to the framework that simplifies the setup and configuration of Spring-based applications. This book is an in-depth guide to harnessing Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 for web development, offering practical knowledge of building modern robust web APIs and services. The book covers a wide range of topics that are essential for API development, including RESTful web service fundamentals, Spring concepts, and API specifications. It also explores asynchronous API design, security, designing user interfaces, testing APIs, and the deployment of web services. In addition to its comprehensive coverage, this book offers a highly contextual real-world sample app that you can use as a reference for building different types of APIs for real-world applications. This sample app will lead you through the entire API development cycle, encompassing design and specification, implementation, testing, and deployment. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to design, develop, test, and deploy scalable and maintainable modern APIs using Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3, along with best practices for bolstering the security and reliability of your applications and improving your application's overall functionality.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1 – RESTful Web Services
7
Part 2 – Security, UI, Testing, and Deployment
12
Part 3 – gRPC, Logging, and Monitoring
16
Part 4 – GraphQL

Writing code for AOP

We discussed AOP previously in the Understanding the patterns and paradigms of Spring section. In simple terms, AOP is a programming paradigm that solves cross-cutting concerns such as logging, transactions, and security. These cross-cutting concerns are known as aspects in AOP. They allow you to modularize your code and place cross-cutting concerns in a central location.

The following code captures the time taken by a method to execute:

class Test  public void performSomeTask() {
    long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
    // Business Logic
    long executionTime =
           System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
    System.out.println("Time taken: " + executionTime + "ms");
  }
}

Time calculations are used for monitoring performance. This code captures the execution time (how...