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Learning Spring Boot 4 - Fourth Edition
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Learning Spring Boot 4 - Fourth Edition

by Wanderson Xesquevixos, Ranga Rao Karanam, Magnus Larsson, Greg L. Turnquist
July 2026
Intermediate
306 pages
3h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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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. Java in the mid-2000s was challenging to use, difficult to test, and frankly short on enthusiasm.

Then along came the Spring Framework. This toolkit focused on easing developers' lives. And the excitement was off the charts.

Fast forward to 2013 at the SpringOne 2GX conference, the Spring team unveiled Spring Boot: a new approach to writing Spring apps. More than a decade later, Spring Boot 4 represents the clearest expression yet of that original aim to reduce Java complexity.

Spring Boot 4 features several enhancements ...

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