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Spring MVC Basics

Spring MVC is one of the leading web frameworks in the Java world. It provides all the power of Spring dependency injection and bean management with an elegant configuration mechanism based on annotations. Learn how to work with the annotation-based approach, which is significantly different from the previous XML-based style.

This talk will demonstrate the fundamentals of Spring MVC, including controller, service, and repository annotations, handling form data, using layouts, and more.


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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