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NFJS2025

Spring MVC

Spring is still the leading open source framework in the Java world for building web apps and web services. This workshop will walk through creating both, with special emphasis on deployable restful web services. In addition to the basic code, the workshop will look at how Spring operates, including the proxy design pattern, interceptors, managing singletons, and more.

=== Spring MVC architecture

  • Major concepts
  • Processing HTTP requests and responses
  • Configuration options
  • Test support

=== Spring Boot Features

  • Spring MVC autoconfiguration
  • HTTP message converters
  • JSON serializers
  • Serving static content
  • Using template engines

=== Special bean types

  • Handler mappings
  • View resolvers
  • Filters and interceptors
  • Exception resolvers
  • Content negotiation and REST

=== Annotated controllers

  • Request mapping
  • Handler methods
  • Model objects
  • Data binding and validation

=== Functional endpoints

  • Handler functions
  • Router functions and beans
  • Deployment options
  • Alternative language features

Kenneth Kousen

About Kenneth Kousen

Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.

His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.

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