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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:

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===== Spring Bean Annotations**
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link:/spring-profilesfiles]
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Properties with Spring
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Project Configuration with Spring
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Spring Exceptions (Series)
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The Spring @Qualifier Annotation
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Why Choose Spring as Your Java Framework?
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Understanding getBean() in Spring
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What is a Spring Bean?
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@Component vs @Repository and @Service in Spring
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Spring Core Annotations
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XML-Based Injection in Spring
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Using Spring @Value with Defaults
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A Quick Guide to Spring @Value
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Intro to Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection with Spring
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Constructor Dependency Injection in Spring
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Wiring in Spring: @Autowired, @Resource and @Inject
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Guide to Spring @Autowired
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Quick Guide to Spring Bean Scopes

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:

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===== link:/spring-bean-annotationsSpring Web Annotations*
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@RequestMapping in Spring**
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link:/spring-scheduled-tasksSpring @RequestParam Annotation*
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The Spring @Controller and @RestController Annotations**
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link:/spring-profilesSpring’s RequestBody and ResponseBody Annotations*

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

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===== Spring MVC Tutorial**
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The @ModelAttribute Annotation**
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A Guide to the ViewResolver**
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Getting Started with Forms**
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Introduction to Using Thymeleaf in Spring**
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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:

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===== Bootstrapping a Web Application**
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*Building a REST API***
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Securing a REST API (popular)**
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link:/rest-api-pagination-in-springBasic and Digest Authentication for a REST API*
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REST Pagination
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link:/spring-mvc-model-model-map-model-viewError Handling for REST (popular)
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Entity To DTO Conversion for a Spring REST API
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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:

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===== Spring Persistence Tutorial (Main Series)**
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*Spring JDBC***
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Hibernate 4 with Spring**
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*The DAO with JPA and Spring***
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Transactions with Spring and JPA**
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link:/spring-mvc-model-model-map-model-viewA Guide to JPA with Spring
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Spring JPA – Multiple Databases
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link:/the-persistence-layer-with-spring-data-jpaIntroduction to Spring Data JPA*

Spring Persistence – NoSQL

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===== *Spring Data MongoDB (Series)***
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link:/spring-jdbc-jdbctemplateIntroduction to Spring Data Cassandra*
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*Using the CassandraTemplate from Spring Data***

Spring Security

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

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===== link:/spring-data-mongodb-guideSecurity with Spring (Main Series)*
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*link:/spring-data-cassandra-tutorialSpring Security Authentication Tutorial (Series)
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link:/spring-data-cassandratemplate-cqltemplateSpring Security Registration (Series and Case Study)*

Other Spring Technologies

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===== *link:/security-springIntroduction to Spring Batch
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An Introduction to Grails 3 and GORM**
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*link:/spring-security-registrationSpring Maven Repositories
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Spring Security with Maven
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Spring with Maven