Craig Walls is a senior engineer with Pivotal as the Spring Social project lead and is the author of Spring in Action and Spring Boot in Action. He’s a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring. When he’s not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 2 birds and 2 dogs.
It was over 10 years ago that Spring hit the scene and made a big impact in the enterprise Java development ecosystem. Now that Spring 4 is available, there’s a lot of new features and a lot that you may not know about yet. Whether you’re already working with Spring 4 or are anxious to make a move up, there’s plenty of new tricks Spring has in store for you. We’ll explore them all in this overview of everything that’s new in Spring.
Spring offers a number of configuration options: XML configuration, Java configuration, and Groovy configuration to name a few. To some degree, component-scanning and autowiring help eliminate some explicit configuration. But in general most Spring applications require some essential “bootstrap” configuration to enable key functionality. What’s the right way to build Spring applications when there are so many choices?
What if I told you that configuration was optional?
Spring Boot is an exciting new project that makes it extremely easy to create stand-alone, production-ready Spring applications. Spring Boot takes an opinionated approach to configuring Spring, making it possible to create Spring applications with little or, in some cases, no Spring configuration at all!
In this session, we’ll see how to build real Spring applications using Spring Boot. We’ll also look under the covers to see what makes Spring Boot tick and see how to create plugins for Spring Boot to extend its magic.
