Take your application development skills to the next level by implementing Spring Boot features effectively

Key Features

• This collection of effective recipes serves as guidelines for Spring Boot application development
• Get up to date with features of the latest version of Spring Boot 2.0
• Tips and tricks to improve your efficiency through the stages of software development

Book Description

The Spring framework provides great flexibility for Java development, which also results in tedious configuration work. Spring Boot addresses the configuration difficulties of Spring and makes it easy to create standalone, production-grade Spring-based applications.

This practical guide makes the existing development process more efficient. Spring Boot Cookbook 2.0 Second Edition smartly combines all the skills and expertise to efficiently develop, test, deploy, and monitor applications using Spring Boot on premise and in the cloud. We start with an overview of the important Spring Boot features you will learn to create a web application for a RESTful service. Learn to fine-tune the behavior of a web application by learning about custom routes and asset paths and how to modify routing patterns. Address the requirements of a complex enterprise application and cover the creation of custom Spring Boot starters.

This book also includes examples of the new and improved facilities available to create various kinds of tests introduced in Spring Boot 1.4 and 2.0, and gain insights into Spring Boot DevTools. Explore the basics of Spring Boot Cloud modules and various Cloud starters to make applications in “Cloud Native” and take advantage of Service Discovery and Circuit Breakers.

What you will learn

• Get to know Spring Boot Starters and create custom auto-configurations
• Work with custom annotations that enable bean activation
• Use DevTools to easily develop and debug applications
• Learn the effective testing techniques by integrating Cucumber and Spock
• Observe an eternal application configuration using Consul
• Move your existing Spring Boot applications to the cloud
• Use Hashicorp Consul and Netflix Eureka for dynamic Service Discovery
• Understand the various mechanisms that Spring Boot provides to examine an application’s health

Who this book is for

This book is for Java Developers who have good knowledge and understanding of Spring and Java application development.

Alex Antonov is a very passionate technologist with a hunger to learn new tools, languages, techniques, and concepts behind enterprise application design. His specialty lies in designing highly scalable distributed large-scale enterprise systems. He is also a frequent presenter on the topics of architecture and design at conferences such as UberConference, JavaOne, and SpringOne 2GX. Alex joined Orbitz Worldwide in 2004 and in his current role of senior principal engineer, he is responsible for providing technical leadership and guidance in the development of foundational technologies, core libraries, and APIs for enterprise-wide use, as well as being responsible for web application frameworks and developing common practices. Alex has been a long-time Spring user, starting with Spring 2.0.8 all the way to the latest and greatest—Spring Boot. Besides Java, he is also proficient in Ruby/Rails, PHP, and Groovy, and is currently learning Erlang and Go.