Spring
Spring Framework is an open-source Java application framework that provides infrastructure and programming models for building applications, including dependency injection, configuration, and web and data-access capabilities.
Kafka Streams in Action, Second Edition
Spring is an open-source Java application framework that provides dependency injection, configuration, and other infrastructure for building applications.
- How it is used
- Uses dependency injection and Spring Kafka abstractions to build configurable, testable Kafka producers, consumers, and Streams applications.
- How deep it goes
- Explains interfaces, injection, annotations, Kafka Streams configuration, lifecycle, and manual wiring, while deferring broader Spring capabilities.
- Examples
- Demonstrates payment processing with injected network clients and loan approval through a Kafka Streams topology.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via Spring Kafka and Spring Boot to wire testable components and run Kafka Streams applications with managed or manual lifecycle control.
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Spring in Action, Sixth Edition
An open-source Java application framework that provides infrastructure for building applications through containers, dependency injection, web support, data access, security, integration, and related capabilities.
- How it is used
- Provides application infrastructure while letting developers focus on features such as a web home page.
- How deep it goes
- Explains containers and dependency injection with services, then traces a small web application through starters and autoconfiguration; defers detailed REST and reactive work.
- Examples
- Uses product and inventory services for bean wiring and a home page controller, template, and test for web development.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via Spring Initializr and Spring Boot to create and test a simple web application.
Java Persistence with Spring Data and Hibernate epub
Spring is a Java application-development framework that provides infrastructure abstractions for tasks such as dependency injection, data access, and transaction management.
- How it is used
- Coordinates Java application components, persistence infrastructure, and transaction boundaries through dependency injection and managed beans.
- How deep it goes
- Explains IoC containers, bean lifecycle, persistence integration, and transaction APIs, but stops short of detailed implementation internals.
- Examples
- Uses IoC container assembly, DAO applications, JPA and Hibernate integrations, and PlatformTransactionManager operations as concrete examples.
- What you can do after
- Configure Java components, persistence beans, and declarative or programmatic transaction management with Spring.
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Related concepts
- dependency injectionuses · Dependency injection is a software design technique in which a component receives its dependencies from outside rather than creating or locating them internally.
- Spring Bootincludes · Spring Boot is an open-source framework in the Spring ecosystem for building stand-alone, production-ready applications with convention-based configuration and auto-configuration.
- aspectuses · An aspect is a modular unit of cross-cutting behavior applied around selected program operations or method invocations.
- declarative programminguses · Declarative programming is a programming paradigm that specifies desired results, states, relationships, or rules without prescribing the step-by-step operations that produce them.
- Embabelused by · Embabel is a JVM agent framework built on Spring for defining and planning typed actions, including agents that use language models and external capabilities.
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