Spring Boot in Action

A great overall introduction to Spring Boot. The first four chapters cover the basics for a standard Maven or Gradle setup, including externalizing properties. From there he covers Testing, working with the CLI and Groovy, and then working with Grails.The actuator and how to deploy apps are well covered too. Sample code is offered throughout. The appendices are extensive and useful, especially the one covering developer tools. I've seen Mr. Walls at NFJS conferences several times, and he is always good at boiling down complex subjects to their core principles. I recommend this book for anyone who works with Spring Boot.

If you have worked with the decade-old Spring framework, you are well aware that it has a long history of providing configuration headaches for developers. The new Spring Boot framework, on the other hand, literally brings much-needed simplification and automation to the process of using Spring. And it puts some refreshing fun back into application development."Spring Boot," Craig Walls writes in his new book, "is an exciting new way to develop Spring applications with minimal friction from the framework itself. Auto-configuration eliminates much of the boilerplate configuration that infests traditional Spring applications. Spring Boot starters enable you to specify build dependencies by what they offer rather than use explicit library names and version. The Spring Boot CLI takes Spring Boot's frictionless development model to a whole new level by enabling quick and easy development with Groovy from the command line. And the [Spring Boot] Actuator lets you look inside your running application to see what and how Spring Boot has done."You do not need a lot of experience with Spring to benefit from this book. You do need some Java background, of course, and it is helpful to have used Groovy, Gradle and Maven a few times. But this book's text is written smoothly, and it is well illustrated, with numerous code examples and a few screen shoots. So it should not be hard for fairly new Java developers to use it and pick up new skills.Throughout the book, you learn how to develop a reading-list application, using Spring Initializr, Spring Boot, Spring Tool Suite, and other tools. You will "use Spring MVC to handle web requests, Thymeleaf to define web views, and Spring Data JPA to persist the reading selections to a database," Craig Walls explains. Initially, at least, "an embedded H2 database" is used during development.The eight-chapter book is organized as follows:1. Bootstarting Spring2. Developing your first Spring Boot Application3. Customizing configuration4. Testing with Spring Boot5. Getting Groovy with the Spring Boot CLI6. Applying Grails in in Spring Boot7. Taking a peek inside the Actuator8. Deploying Spring Boot applicationsFour helpful appendices also are offered.Bottom line: with Spring Boot on your side, doing a lot of the heavy lifting, you likely will have better feelings about the venerable Spring framework. You may even gain a healthy new respect for it. Spring Boot certainly will add more years to Spring's usefulness and viability in the marketplace.(P.S. - Software books are hard for me to "love," but I would give this book four and a half stars, if I could. My thanks to Manning for providing a review copy.)

This is an amazing book to get you started and functional using Spring Boot. I'm just partially through this book and I've already started down several paths on my own using Spring Boot. Not only does it expose you to Boot but how Boot plays in other areas, best practices and how to use the built in features to support the platform. This is an amazing technology and is presented perfectly in this book. I highly recommend this to anyone starting out or trying to learn Spring Boot.

Both of Craig Walls' Spring books are excellent. They use simple examples to make points and explain concepts without unnecessarily complicating the text with a complex example program (like so many other books do). Craig Walls knows how to explain things so that readers can actually learn, understand, and retain the subject matter. Both of his Spring books have been very helpful.

good book to start with , very clear than the books which most of non native english authors written(not being a racist), it just different.but this is only a beginner book

Expected lot more than what has actually been written in the book .

As always, Craig Walls writes a clear and interesting explanation of a complex topic. The book is well organized and provides good examples of how Spring Boot works. It is concise, but provides everything you need to get started with Spring Boot.

They need to make a new version of this book with Spring boot 2.x.x and Spring 5.x.x The ideas and concepts are sound but the code is not maintained and very outdated.