Master the Spring Framework, its fundamentals and core topics while learning from the authors' expert insights and real-world experiences. This book goes well beyond the basics: you'll learn how to leverage the latest Spring Framework 7 to build the various tiers and parts of today's modern, complex enterprise Java applications systems, top to bottom.
The new Seventh Edition is based on the latest available Long-Term Support release (Java 25), modernized with the latest that Spring Framework 7 has to offer. New features include enhanced chapters with reactive programming elements, streamlined content for clarity, and new examples incorporating Spring AI and Spring Modulith. You'll learn to use records, Spring Data repositories, Converters, Reactive components and more. This book also covers integrating Spring with popular frameworks and libraries like Testcontainers, Hibernate, GraphQL, jOOQ, Kafka, and others.
This popular title is by far the most comprehensive and definitive treatment of Spring available. The full sample application allows you to apply many of the technologies and techniques covered in Pro Spring 7 and see how they work together.
What You Will Learn
- What's new in Spring Framework 7 and how to use it with the latest LTS version of Java, Java 25
- How to integrate Spring with the most renowned and practical frameworks
- How to build complex enterprise cloud-native applications using Spring 7
- How to master data access, persistence and transactions, in a reactive or non-reactive manner
- Secure Spring Applications using Spring Security
- Monitor Spring Boot applications with Micrometer Prometheus and Grafana
- How to use with Spring Boot, Integration and other key Spring projects
This Book Is For
Experienced Java and enterprise Java developers and programmers. Some experience with Spring highly recommended.
Master the foundations of the Spring Framework and learn how to build robust, scalable Java applications using the latest Spring Framework 7 and Java 25. This first volume takes you from Spring's core principles through advanced configuration techniques, aspect-oriented programming, data access, persistence, transactions, and reactive database programming. Based on the latest Spring Framework 7 release, this edition has been fully updated with modern Java features, enhanced reactive programming coverage, Spring AI examples, Spring Modulith concepts, and practical integrations with widely used technologies such as Hibernate, Jakarta Persistence, jOOQ, Testcontainers, and Spring Data.Through detailed explanations and real-world examples, you'll learn how Spring's dependency injection model, configuration approaches, and data access technologies work together to form the foundation of enterprise applications. By the end of this volume, you'll be equipped to design and implement the core application and persistence layers of modern cloud-native systems.
You Will:
What's new in Spring Framework 7 and how to use it with Java 25
Master dependency injection, inversion of control, and Spring configuration
Apply aspect-oriented programming to enterprise applications
Build data access layers with Spring JDBC, Hibernate, and Jakarta Persistence
Implement transaction management effectively
Use Spring Data repositories with SQL and NoSQL databases
Develop reactive data-access solutions
Integrate Spring with popular frameworks including Hibernate, jOOQ and Testcontainers.
