Beginning Spring 5: From Novice to Professional - Softcover

Joseph B. Ottinger (@josephbottinger) is a distributed systems architect with experience in many cloud platforms. He was the editor-in-chief of both Java Developer Journal and TheServerSide.com, and has also contributed to many, many publications, open source projects, and commercial projects over the years, using many different languages (but primarily Java, Python, and JavaScript). He’s also a previously published author online (with too many publications to note individually) and in print, through Apress.

Andrew Lombardi (@kinabalu) is a veteran entrepreneur and systems engineer. He’s run the successful boutique consulting firm Mystic Coders for 18 years. With his team they’ve helped companies as large as Walmart and firms with problems as interesting as helicopter simulation. A few years ago he authored a book on WebSocket for O’Reilly which focused on the server and client components all written with JavaScript and Node.js. He firmly believes that the best thing he’s done so far, is being a great dad.

Get started with Spring Framework 5 and its ecosystem, with a guide to the working practices in modern development. This book will teach you how to use the Spring Framework to build Java-based applications, web applications, and microservices. You’ll see how Spring has drastically and positively affected the way we program and design applications in Java.

Beginning Spring 5 discusses how you can build apps with the Spring mindset and what the benefits of that mindset are. Along the way you will learn many aspects of the Spring ecosystem with easy-to-understand applications designed to teach you not only the technology, but also the practices that benefit the most from Spring.

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