Spring 5.0 is the latest Spring Framework release that highlights Functional Web Framework and Reactive Programming. In this version, all the codes comply with the latest Java 1.8 syntax but the whole framework is designed to support the Java 1.9 Java Development Kit (JDK) in the near future. On the enterprise platform, the framework is supposed to use servlet 3.1 and 4.0 specifications and utilize HTTP/2 to run its applications.

This book will start with how to set up and configure the development environment given the necessary tools and plugins to run Spring 5.0 applications.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following:

• Installing Java Development Kit 1.8
• Installing Tomcat 9 and configuring HTTP/2
• Installing STS Eclipse 3.8 IDE
• Creating Eclipse projects using Maven
• Creating Spring STS Eclipse projects using Gradle
• Deploying Spring projects using Maven
• Deploying Spring projects using Gradle
• Installing the MySQL 5.7 database server
• Installing the MongoDB 3.2 database server