Learning Spring Boot - Softcover

Turnquist, Greg L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784393029 ISBN 13: 9781784393021

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Learn how to use Spring Boot to build apps faster than ever before

About This Book

• Create Spring-powered, production-grade applications and services with minimal fuss
• Support multiple environments with one artifact, and add production-grade support with features like custom metrics to track the number of messages published and consumed
• Each chapter introduces a different area that Spring Boot tackles and explains how to tweak your apps through different properties

Who This Book Is For

This book is for both novice developers in general and experienced Spring developers. It will teach you how to override Spring Boot's opinions and frees you from the need to define complicated configurations.

What You Will Learn

• Use Spring Boot's CLI tool to build rapid Groovy-based apps without even touching a build tool
• Craft a Spring JMS app with ActiveMQ
• Work with multiple database configurations using Spring Data JPA in development and production as well as Spring Data MongoDB
• Find out exactly what beans Spring Boot is creating for you, and why it decided to do so
• Secure your app at the URL and method levels
• Use Spring Data REST to export your Spring Data repositories to support independent clients
• Configure the embedded Tomcat servlet engine to use SSL and see how it automatically uses HSTS

In Detail

This practical, accessible guide helps you get up and running fast with Spring Boot. This book starts by crafting a Spring MVC application using the Spring stack on top of Apache Tomcat, with little configuration on from your end. You will also learn how to write both JUnit and Spock test cases. Then, you'll pull back the curtain and see how Spring Boot works by using Spring Messaging (JMS and AMQP) as well as creating custom metrics, custom information, and custom CLI commands aimed at production environments. In the last two chapters, you'll see how Spring Boot supports everyday situations we all deal with. You will learn how to create multiple configurations inside your app that can interact with different data stores.

By the end of the book, you'll have a good understanding of how Spring Boot works, how it manages low-level infrastructure, and how to start out production-grade apps with built-in support tools as well as custom ones.

About this title

About the Author:

Greg L. Turnquist

Greg L. Turnquist has developed software professionally since 1997. From 2002 to 2010, he was part of the senior software team that worked on Harris' $3.5 billion FAA telco program, architecting mission-critical enterprise apps while managing a software team. He provided after-hours support to a nation-wide telco system and is no stranger to midnight failures and software triages. In 2010, he joined the SpringSource division of VMware, which was spun off into Pivotal in 2013. As a test-bitten script junky, Java geek, and JavaScript Padawan, he is a member of the Spring Data team as well as the mobile-oriented Allspark team. He has made key contributions to Spring Boot and Spring Data REST while also serving as Getting Started Guides, editor-at-large for http://spring.io/. He has migrated Spring Data release train's entire reference docs to Asciidoctor in a week. He has also contributed to multiple Spring portfolio projects. He has worked with Java, Spring, Spring Security, AspectJ, and Jython technologies and has also developed sophisticated scripts for *nix and Windows platforms. As a wiki evangelist, he has also deployed a LAMP-based wiki website that provides fingertip knowledge to users. In 2006, Greg created the Spring Python project. The Spring Framework provided many useful features, and he wanted these features to be available when he was working with Python. He has written Python Testing Cookbook and Spring Python 1.1 for Packt Publishing. He has completed a Master's degree in Computer Engineering at Auburn University and lives in the United States with his family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1784393029
• ISBN 13: 9781784393021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252