In this chapter, we looked at how the world evolved toward microservices and Cloud-Native applications. We understood how Spring Framework and projects are evolving to meet the needs of today's world with projects such as Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Data.
In the next chapter, we will start focusing on Spring Boot. We will look at how Spring Boot makes developing microservices easy.
The first version of Spring Framework 1.0 was released in March 2004. For more than a decade and a half, Spring Framework remained the framework of choice to build Java applications.
In the relatively young and dynamic world of Java frameworks, a decade is a long time.
In this chapter, we start with understanding the core features of Spring Framework. ...
