CHAPTER 2

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Getting Started

Often the hardest part of coming to grips with any new development tool is figuring out where to begin. Typically, this problem is worse when the tool offers as many choices as Spring. Fortunately, getting started with Spring isn’t that hard if you know where to look first. In this chapter, we present you with all the basic knowledge you need to get off to a flying start. Specifically, you will look at the following:

  • Obtaining Spring: The first logical step is to obtain or build the Spring JAR files. If you want to get up and running quickly, simply use the dependency management snippets in your build system with the ...

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