Preface

Web development with Java has a high learning curve compared to Ruby on Rails, Django, and modern PHP frameworks. Spring, the most used Java framework for web development, makes it as easy as it can get, especially with its recent move of using plain Java classes instead of XML files for configuration classes for configuration. This book focuses on getting you up and running with Spring 4 in the most efficient manner.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Creating a Spring Application, covers the installation of Java and other software on Mac OS, Ubuntu, and Windows. It also explains how to build a Spring application and a Spring web application.

Chapter 2, Defining Beans and Using Dependency Injection, introduces Spring beans and demonstrates ...

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