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Felipe Gutierrez, Pro Spring Boot, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1431-2_1

1. Introduction to Spring Boot

Felipe Gutierrez

(1)Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

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It has been almost 13 years since the first beta release of the Spring Framework, which proved that you could create Java Enterprise applications without the complicated architecture that Sun Microsystems exposed to the world with the release of J2EE.

The Spring Framework was released as an open source project and was accepted well. It became the best open source framework for creating enterprise applications ...

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