Let's quickly review what we hope you have learned so far in the previous chapters. Chapter by chapter, you must have found out:
How to initiate a project, and how to rely on standards to keep the code base scalable and adaptive. These standards came from a selection of tools such as Maven or the Java Persistence API. The presented standards also came with a selection of common practices, on the client side for example, with the AngularJS MVC pattern or the Bootstrap Framework UI.
How to make the most of Spring MVC while facing modern challenges. Spring MVC has been demonstrated as a web MVC framework (with its request flow, the content negotiation, the view resolution, the model binding, the exception handling, and so on), but also demonstrated as an integrated Spring component within its Spring environment. An integrated framework able to relay the Spring Security authentication or the Spring Social abstraction. It is also able to serve Spring Data pagination tools as well as...