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Building Applications with Spring 5 and Kotlin

You're reading from Building Applications with Spring 5 and Kotlin Build scalable and reactive applications with Spring combined with the productivity of Kotlin

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788394802

Length 310 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Kotlin

Tools

Spring

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Vasić

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Starting Up FREE CHAPTER

2. Starting with Spring

3. Building Your First Spring RESTful Service with Kotlin

4. Working with Spring Data JPA and MySQL

5. Securing Applications with Spring Security

6. Spring Cloud

7. Using Project Reactor

8. Development Practices

9. Testing

10. Project Deployment

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What is Spring?

The Spring Framework is a framework developed by the Pivotal company. The framework offers to end the user's programming and configuration model for modern enterprise applications. Spring Framework is made for developers to be able to focus on application-level business logic. Today almost all modern enterprise applications are developed by using Spring Framework. That makes it one of the most widely used and popular development frameworks available.

What features does it offer?

Spring Framework comes with plenty of modern features every developer needs. Here, we will highlight the most important ones and say a few words about them.

Dependency injection

When we talk about the Spring Framework here, the first thing we need to mention is dependency injection. This is a useful feature that is required in everyday development. Every developer tries to create classes that are as independent as possible. Developers try to create a system where classes are not aware of each other, that...

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Vasić

Vasić

Milo Vasi is a software engineer, author and open source enthusiasts. Milo holds a Bachelor degree in Programming of computer graphics and Master degree in the field of Android programming, both degrees he obtained at the Singidunum University. He published his first book Fundamental Kotlin in October 2016 and thus achieved his dream of becoming an author.

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