Master the Spring Framework, its fundamentals and core topics, and share the authors’ insights and real-world experiences. This book goes well beyond the basics: you'll learn how to leverage the latest Spring Framework 6 to build the various tiers and parts of today's modern, complex enterprise Java applications systems, top to bottom, including data access, SQL generation with jOOQ, persistence with Hibernate, transactions, set up security, classic web and presentation tiers and adding in some reactivity. Spring 6 will be based on the latest available Long Term Support (LTS) release, Java 17. So, you will be able to do the following in your Spring applications: use records, use new utility methods in String class; utilize Local-Variable Syntax for Lambda Parameters; Nested Based Access Control, and more. Integrating Spring with the most used frameworks and libraries is covered in this book, such as Testcontainers, Hibernate, jOOQ, Kafka and many others. A full sample application allows you to apply many of the technologies and techniques covered in Pro Spring 6 and see how they work together. This book updates the perennial bestseller with the latest that Spring Framework 6 has to offer. Now in its sixth edition, this popular title is by far the most comprehensive and definitive treatment of Spring available. After reading this book, you'll be armed with the power of Spring to build complex applications, top to bottom. The agile, lightweight, open-source Spring Framework continues to be the de facto leading enterprise Java application development framework for today's Java programmers and developers. What You Will Learn What’s new in Spring Framework 6 and how to use it with the latest LTS version of Java, Java 17 How to integrate Spring with the most renowned and practical frameworks and dependencies How to build complex enterprise cloud-native applications using Spring 6 How to master data access, persistence and transactions How to use with Spring Batch, Integration and other key Spring projects This Book Is ForExperienced Java and enterprise Java developers and programmers. Some experience with Spring highly recommended. 

The agile, lightweight, open-source Spring Framework continues to be the de facto leading enterprise Java application development framework for today's Java programmers and developers. It works with other leading open-source, agile and lightweight Java technologies like Hibernate, Groovy, MyBatis, and more. Spring now also works with Java EE and JPA 2 as well. Pro Spring 3 updates the bestselling Pro Spring with the latest that the Spring Framework has to offer: version 3.1. At 1000 pages, this is by far the most comprehensive Spring book available, thoroughly exploring the power of Spring. With Pro Spring 3, you'll learn Spring basics and core topics, and gain access to the authors' insights and real world experiences with remoting, Hibernate, and EJB. Beyond the basics, you'll learn how to leverage the Spring Framework to build various tiers or parts of an enterprise Java application like transactions, the web and presentations tiers, deployment, and much more. A full sample application allows you to apply many of the technologies and techniques covered in this book and see how they work together. After reading this definitive book, you'll be armed with the power of Spring to build complex Spring applications, top to bottom. What you'll learn * How to get started with the Spring Framework and its latest features * What Inversion of Control (IoC) and dependency injection (DI) are * Aspect-oriented programming techniques with Spring, and why they're important * Data access and persistence using Spring and Hibernate, MyBatis, JPA 2 and more * How to build transaction engines for your enterprise application and take advantage of other middle-tier features in Spring * How to build Spring-based web applications using Spring MVC and more * How to build Spring-based front ends * How the Spring Framework can work with scripting languages like Groovy to provide enhanced functionality for your applications * How to benefit from the Spring IDE Who this book is for This book is for experienced Java developers who may be learning Spring for the first time or have minimal exposure to the Spring Framework. It's aimed at those who are active in or plan on getting into enterprise Java application development.