Gateway Software Symposium

April 5 - 6, 2019

Craig Walls

Craig Walls

Author of Spring in Action

Craig Walls is a principal engineer with Pivotal and is the author of Spring in Action and Spring Boot in Action. He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring. When he's not slinging code, Craig is planning his next trip to Disney World or Disneyland and spending as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 2 birds and 3 dogs.

Presentations

Sat 8:15 AM Essential Spring Boot
Sat 10:00 AM Extreme Spring Boot
Sat 1:00 PM Spring Boot: Application management with Actuator
Sat 2:45 PM Serverless Spring: Spring Function as a Service
Sat 4:30 PM The talking app: An introduction to developing Alexa skills

BOOKS

Spring in Action

Spring in Action

Spring Framework has been making Java developers more productive and successful for over a dozen years, and it shows no signs of slowing down!

Spring in Action, 5th Edition is the fully-updated revision of Manning's bestselling Spring in Action. This new edition includes all Spring 5.0 updates, along with new examples on reactive programming, Spring WebFlux, and microservices. Readers will also find the latest Spring best practices, including Spring Boot for application setup and configuration.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

Spring Boot in Action

Spring Boot in Action

Summary

A developer-focused guide to writing applications using Spring Boot. You'll learn how to bypass the tedious configuration steps so that you can concentrate on your application's behavior.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

The Spring Framework simplifies enterprise Java development, but it does require lots of tedious configuration work. Spring Boot radically streamlines spinning up a Spring application. You get automatic configuration and a model with established conventions for build-time and runtime dependencies. You also get a handy command-line interface you can use to write scripts in Groovy. Developers who use Spring Boot often say that they can't imagine going back to hand configuring their applications.

About the Book

Spring Boot in Action is a developer-focused guide to writing applications using Spring Boot. In it, you'll learn how to bypass configuration steps so you can focus on your application's behavior. Spring expert Craig Walls uses interesting and practical examples to teach you both how to use the default settings effectively and how to override and customize Spring Boot for your unique environment. Along the way, you'll pick up insights from Craig's years of Spring development experience.

What's Inside

  • Develop Spring apps more efficiently
  • Minimal to no configuration
  • Runtime metrics with the Actuator
  • Covers Spring Boot 1.3

About the Reader

Written for readers familiar with the Spring Framework.

About the Author

Craig Walls is a software developer, author of the popular book Spring in Action, Fourth Edition, and a frequent speaker at conferences.

Table of Contents

  1. Bootstarting Spring
  2. Developing your first Spring Boot application
  3. Customizing configuration
  4. Testing with Spring Boot
  5. Getting Groovy with the Spring Boot CLI
  6. Applying Grails in Spring Boot
  7. Taking a peek inside with the Actuator
  8. Deploying Spring Boot applications
    9. APPENDIXES
  1. Spring Boot developer tools
  2. Spring Boot starters
  3. Configuration properties
  4. Spring Boot dependencies