Pro Kotlin Web Apps from Scratch: Building Production-Ready Web Apps Without a Framework

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A. LilleaasPro Kotlin Web Apps from Scratchhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9057-6_13

13. Setup, Teardown, and Dependency Injection with Spring Context

August Lilleaas¹  

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Oslo, Norway

 

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to use Spring Context for managing resources in your web app and wire components together using dependency injection.

If you’re new to Kotlin, here are some language features that you’ll see examples of in this chapter:

• Null safety with lateinit

• Using lambdas in place of object literals

Also in this chapter, you will learn the following about using Spring Context:

• Programmatically creating and configuring Spring Context – no XML!

• Setting up lazy ...