By now, we’ve read about Spring and Dependency Injection, along with topics like web services (particularly REST services), transaction, persistence, and security. These are likely to be the “most important” parts of the Spring ecosystem, generally speaking, but we’ve barely scratched the surface of the Spring ecosystem itself, much less projects that use Spring without being part of the Spring project.
In this chapter, we’d like to look at some of the things programmers will possibly run into in the real world. ...