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Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

By : Claudio Eduardo de Oliveira, Greg L. Turnquist, Alex Antonov
Book Image

Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

By: Claudio Eduardo de Oliveira, Greg L. Turnquist, Alex Antonov

Overview of this book

Spring Framework has become the most popular framework for Java development. It not only simplifies software development but also improves developer productivity. This book covers effective ways to develop robust applications in Java using Spring. The course is up made of three modules, each one having a take-away relating to building end-to-end java applications. The first module takes the approach of learning Spring frameworks by building applications.You will learn to build APIs and integrate them with popular fraemworks suh as AngularJS, Spring WebFlux, and Spring Data. You will also learn to build microservices using Spring's support for Kotlin. You will learn about the Reactive paradigm in the Spring architecture using Project Reactor. In the second module, after getting hands-on with Spring, you will learn about the most popular tool in the Spring ecosystem-Spring Boot. You will learn to build applications with Spring Boot, bundle them, and deploy them on the cloud. After learning to build applications with Spring Boot, you will be able to use various tests that are an important part of application development. We also cover the important developer tools such as AMQP messaging, websockets, security, and more. This will give you a good functional understanding of scalable development in the Spring ecosystem with Spring Boot. In the third and final module, you will tackle the most important challenges in Java application development with Spring Boot using practical recipes. Including recipes for testing, deployment, monitoring, and securing your applications. This module will also address the functional and technical requirements for building enterprise applications. By the end of the course you will be comfortable with using Spring and Spring Boot to develop Java applications and will have mastered the intricacies of production-grade applications.
Table of Contents (34 chapters)
Title Page - Courses
Copyright and Credits - Courses
Packt Upsell - Courses
Preface
Bibliography
Index

Moving to a fully asynchronous web client


Now we are geared up to receive asynchronous messages from the server as comments are created, and display them dynamically on the site. However, there is something else that warrants attention.

Remember how, in the previous chapter, we had an HTML form for the user to fill out comments? The previous chapter's controller responded to such POSTs like this:

    @PostMapping("/comments") 
    public Mono<String> addComment(Mono<Comment> newComment) { 
 
      /* stream comments to COMMENTS service */ 
 
      return Mono.just("redirect:/"); 
    } 

redirect:/ is a Spring Web signal to re-render the page at / via an HTTP redirect. Since we are shifting into dynamically updating the page based on asynchronous WebSocket messages, this is no longer the best way.

What are the issues? A few can be listed as follows:

  • If the comment hasn't been saved (yet), the redirect would re-render the page with no change at all.
  • The redirect may cause an update in...