Spring Tutorial

The Spring Framework is a mature, powerful and highly flexible framework focused on building web applications in Java.

One of the core benefits of Spring is that it takes care of most of the low-level aspects of building the application to allow us to actually focus on features and business logic.

Another strong point is that, while the framework is quite mature and well-established, it’s very actively maintained and has a thriving dev community. This makes it quite up to date and aligned with the Java ecosystem right now.

Of course, there’s a lot to learn to work well with Spring.

Let’s get started.

Basics of Spring

We’ll start with some core aspects of the framework first:

• Spring Bean Annotations

• @Async in Spring

• The @Scheduled Annotation in Spring

• Spring Events

• Spring Profiles

• A Spring Custom Annotation for a Better DAO

• Properties with Spring

• Project Configuration with Spring

• A Guide To Caching in Spring

• Configure a Spring Boot Web Application

• Spring Boot Actuator

• Spring Exceptions (Series)

Spring on the Web

The Spring MVC framework is the foundation of building web applications with Spring.

It powers a wide range of web applications, from traditional MVC-style applications, all the way to stateless REST APIs.

Let’s start with some of the basics – the common ground between all of these styles of web applications:

• Spring Web Annotations

• @RequestMapping in Spring

• Spring @RequestParam Annotation

• The Spring @Controller and @RestController Annotations

• Spring’s RequestBody and ResponseBody Annotations

And then, the basics of building a traditional, MVC-style web application:

• Spring MVC Tutorial

• The @ModelAttribute Annotation

• A Guide to the ViewResolver

• Getting Started with Forms

• Introduction to Using Thymeleaf in Spring

• Model, ModelMap, and ModelView

And, if you’d like to explore the Spring MVC framework more in-depth, here’s a more comprehensive guide to do that.

Finally, let’s explore the RESTful support in Spring MVC:

• Bootstrapping a Web Application

• Building a REST API

• Securing a REST API (popular)

• Basic and Digest Authentication for a REST API

• REST Pagination

• Error Handling for REST (popular)

• Entity To DTO Conversion for a Spring REST API

• Spring’s RequestBody and ResponseBody Annotations (popular)

And, if you’d like to further explore building a REST API with Spring, you can go through the more full-fledged series of articles here.

Spring Persistence – SQL

Spring supports most persistence solutions out there:

• Spring Persistence Tutorial (Main Series)

• Spring JDBC

• Hibernate 4 with Spring

• The DAO with JPA and Spring

• Transactions with Spring and JPA

• A Guide to JPA with Spring

• Spring JPA – Multiple Databases

• Introduction to Spring Data JPA

Spring Persistence – NoSQL

• Spring Data MongoDB (Series)

• Introduction to Spring Data Cassandra

• Using the CassandraTemplate from Spring Data

Spring Security

Next, a really strong aspect of the Spring ecosystem – security:

• Security with Spring (Main Series)

• Spring Security Authentication Tutorial (Series)

• Spring Security Registration (Series and Case Study)

Other Spring Technologies

• Introduction to Spring Batch

• An Introduction to Grails 3 and GORM

• Spring Maven Repositories

• Spring Security with Maven

• Spring with Maven