Spring Start Here

7 Understanding Spring Boot and Spring MVC

This chapter covers

• Implementing your first web app
• Using Spring Boot in developing Spring apps
• Understanding the Spring MVC architecture

Now that you know all the needed Spring basics, let’s focus on web apps and how you use Spring to implement them. You can use all the Spring capabilities we’ve discussed to implement any kind of app. But often with Spring, the applications you implement are web apps. In chapters 1 through 6, we discussed the Spring context and aspects that are mandatory for understanding what comes next in the book (including what you’ll find in this chapter). If you jumped directly to this chapter, and you don’t know yet how to work with the Spring context and aspects, you might ...