Spring Boot 2

Spring Boot has been revolutionizing the Spring ecosystem since 2014, and is increasingly replacing “traditional” Spring applications.

Spring Boot is based on Spring and the familiar Spring ecosystem, but doesn’t offer a completely new framework. What it does is simplify dependency management and Spring framework configuration. Spring Boot offers solutions to issues that get in the way of a product going live, as well as a raft of methods for developing test environments.

Spring Boot is the first choice for Spring-based application development, whether they are microservices-based or not.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the models and technologies supported by Spring Boot:

• Web applications
• Reactive applications
• Security
• Database technology
• Caching
• Testing and documentation

It also demonstrates various ways to deploy Spring Boot applications in conventional and cloud-based scenarios.

Tips on best practices and an overview of the differences between Spring Boot versions 1 and 2 complete the picture.