A cookbook is a definitive reference material that consists of several essential recipes on computer programming used for academic, professional, or personal workshops. This book is a large reference database of programming concepts, which aims to describe, highlight, and identify the general features of Spring Framework 5 and also its distinctive features and characteristics as the newest installment of Spring platforms.
The book is written for users who wants to build Spring 5 applications using its core Maven dependencies and for those who prefer to use Spring Boot as the mechanism for web development. It is divided into disciplines that are considered strengths of Spring 5 in which some are familiar concepts such as bean scopes, Model-View-Controller, aspect-object programming, @Async transactions, and Spring security concepts. There are also new theoretical frameworks that can only be found in this Spring version such as Reactor Core, WebFlux, cold and hot streams, and reactive web programming.
You will be guided on how to install the appropriate tools and plug-ins for Spring 5 to work properly. For those who are new to Spring framework, you will also be given a short discussion on its core principles through recipes that handle Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control and implementation of the ApplicationContext container. For experts, this book offers some recipes that illustrate how to implement reactive components such as reactive JPA, service layers, message-driven transactions, and WebSocket implementation.
When it comes to difficulty levels, there are parts that are for beginners and enthusiasts who want to learn Spring web development. But most chapters are intended for experienced Spring users who want to learn functional and reactive programming components of this newest Spring installment. This will provide a new paradigm to those who are seeking optimal and faster software performance with the help of the Stream API, Publisher<T>, Flux<T>, @Async, Callable<T>, and HandlerFunction<T>. These are just few concepts that this book will emphasize and expound through some robust and practical set of recipes.