welcome
Thank you for purchasing the MEAP edition of Spring Start Here, Second Edition. I’m happy to have you as an early reader, and I hope this book helps you take your first confident steps into the Spring ecosystem.
This book is written for developers who already know the basics of Java and want to learn Spring. You don’t need previous experience with Spring, Spring Boot, or enterprise application development. If you understand classes, objects, interfaces, methods, and the basics of a Java project plus some SQL basics, you have enough background to begin.
Spring is one of the most important technologies in the Java world, but it can feel difficult at first because it introduces many new ideas: beans, the Spring context, dependency injection, configuration, web apps, and data access. This book explains these ideas step by step, using simple examples and clear explanations.
By the end of the book, you should understand how Spring manages objects, how dependency injection helps connect parts of an application, how to build simple web apps, and how to work with data. This second edition updates the book for today’s Spring ecosystem while keeping the same beginner-friendly approach.
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Thank you again for reading Spring Start Here, Second Edition.
—Laurentiu Spilca