Java Magazine, March/April 2016
ORACLE COM JAVAMAGAZINE MARCH APRIL 2016 11 Spring Boot is the popular framework for Java enterprise development It is based on the larger Spring Framework and it enables developers to put together apps with less ceremony and housekeeping than found in most frameworks The January February issue of Java Magazine which covered web development had a feature article that explained the basics of setting up and running a Spring Boot application First Steps with Spring Boot This book which at 180 pages plus appendixes is unusually short for a book in the Manning in Action series presents an introduction similar to the article and then keeps going with more elaborate setups more advanced configurations and practical deployment information The deployment coverage includes a discussion of pushing new apps to the cloud specifically Pivotals Cloud Foundry and in passing Heroku The explanation of the Spring ecosystem and how to use it in developing apps is approachable and intelligently presented As a starter manual this book is satisfactory but it contains several frustrating aspects of which these two in particular stand out The first is that the downloadable source code is in places significantly different from whats printed in the book What then is the reader to do or conclude The later code that online is presumably more correct but the text no longer corresponds directly to it A second frustration is that the topic of microservices is not mentioned even though this is clearly a major direction for Spring applications Finally I have difficulty with the authors penchant for Grails a JVM application platform written in Groovy While Grails 30 apps are based on Spring Boot its difficult to imagine that a Grails user would be turning to this book for information on Grails meanwhile a Spring Boot user is unlikely to want information about programming for a different application framework Given the brevity of this book it seems that other topics such as microservices would have been much more helpful Where the content is relevant and the code matches the printed volume Spring Boot in Action is useful well written and easy to follow If it were not for these limitations it could be recommended Andrew Binstock java books SPRING BOOT IN ACTION By Craig Walls Manning Publications
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