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Core Features of Spring Boot

Rod Johnson, CEO of the company behind the foundation of the Spring Framework and dubbed the father of Spring, opened the 2008 Spring Experience conference with a stated mission: reducing Java complexity. The YouTube video titled Story time with Keith Donald Co-Founder SpringSource & Founder SteadyTown 2-27-2014 (https://springbootlearning.com/origin-of-spring), uploaded by TrepHub, is a 90-minute journey back into the early days of Spring guided by Keith Donald, one of Spring’s co-founders. Here too, you’ll find the same mission reinforced.

Java in the mid-2000s was challenging to use, difficult to test, and frankly short on enthusiasm.

But along came a toolkit: the Spring Framework. This toolkit focused on easing ...

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