How to Learn Spring Framework

In this article, I would like to suggest for beginners how to learn Spring framework to develop Enterprise Java EE applications. Spring is an Open Source framework, developed by Rod Johnson.

The Spring Framework is a Java platform that provides comprehensive infrastructure support for developing Java applications. Spring handles the infrastructure so application developer can focus on your application.

Most Important Features of the Spring Framework:

1. Lightweight
2. Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
3. Transaction Management
4. Container
5. Dependency Injection
6. Integration With Other Frameworks

Read the complete overview of Spring framework at Spring Framework Overview.

Spring framework is open source and hosted all its code base on GitHub so you should check out at GitHub repository of Spring framework.

My suggestion is along with the Spring framework, you should also learn Spring Boot. Spring Boot is a project built on the top of the Spring framework. It provides a simpler and faster way to set up, configure, and run both simple and web-based applications.

Check out most popular Spring boot tutorial here at Spring boot tutorial.

Spring Framework Online Course

There are some popular online courses you must start with to learn about spring development. So if you are interested to buy an online spring course then I will suggest a few top spring online course here:

• Spring & Hibernate for Beginners (includes Spring Boot)

• Spring Framework 5: Beginner to Guru

• Java Spring Tutorial Masterclass - Learn Spring Framework 5

• Spring Framework Master Class - Learn Spring the Modern Way!

• Spring Core Advanced - Beyond the Basics

• Spring Framework Interview Guide - 200+ Questions & Answers

These courses are available on Udemy with very less cost so you can check out once. I always prefer to purchase a Udemy course because the courses are very worthy and the cost is very less (around 10$).

Know more details about spring framework online course at Top Spring Framework Online Courses.

My Spring Framework Tutorials

I highly suggest you go through my all Spring framework related tutorials which will give you real-time experience. I have used the latest release of Spring framework and JDK 8 or later versions in all the examples.

Here are all my Spring framework tutorials:

• Spring Core 5 Tutorial

• Spring Data JPA Tutorial

• Spring MVC 5 Tutorial

• Spring Security Tutorial

• Spring Boot 2 Tutorial

• Spring Framework 5

Important Tutorials and Guides

These quick guides referred to Spring official site for quick reference.

1. Building a RESTful Web Service - Learn how to create a RESTful web service with Spring. 
2. Scheduling Tasks - Learn how to schedule tasks with Spring. 
3. Consuming a RESTful Web Service - Learn how to retrieve web page data with Spring's RestTemplate. 
4. Building Java Projects with Gradle - Learn how to build a Java project with Gradle. 
5. Building Java Projects with Maven - Learn how to build a Java project with Maven. 
6. Accessing Relational Data using JDBC with Spring - Learn how to access relational data with Spring. 
7. Uploading Files - Learn how to build a Spring application that accepts multi-part file uploads. 
8. Authenticating a User with LDAP - Learn how to secure an application with LDAP. 
9. Messaging with Redis - Learn how to use Redis as a message broker. 
10. Messaging with RabbitMQ - Learn how to create a simple publish-and-subscribe application with Spring and RabbitMQ. 
11. Accessing Data with Neo4j - Learn how to persist objects and relationships in Neo4j's NoSQL data store. 
12. Validating Form Input - Learn how to perform form validation with Spring. 
13. Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot Actuator - Learn how to create a RESTful Web service with Spring Boot Actuator. 
14. Messaging with JMS - Learn how to publish and subscribe to messages using a JMS broker. 
15. Creating a Batch Service - Learn how to create a basic batch-driven solution. 
16. Securing a Web Application - Learn how to protect your web application with Spring Security. 
17. Building a Hypermedia-Driven RESTful Web Service - Learn how to create a hypermedia-driven RESTful Web service with Spring. 
18. Accessing Data in Pivotal GemFire - Learn how to build an application using Gemfire's data fabric. 
19. Integrating Data - Learn how to build an application that uses Spring Integration to fetch data, process it, and write it to a file. 
20. Caching Data with Pivotal GemFire - Learn how to cache data in GemFire. 
21. Managing Transactions -  Learn how to wrap key parts of the code with transactions. 
22. Accessing Data with JPA - Learn how to work with JPA data persistence using Spring Data JPA. 
23. Accessing Data with MongoDB - Learn how to persist data in MongoDB. 
24. Serving Web Content with Spring MVC - Learn how to create a web page with Spring MVC and Thymeleaf. 
25. Converting a Spring Boot JAR Application to a WAR - Learn how to convert your Spring Boot JAR-based application to a WAR file. 
26. Creating Asynchronous Methods - Learn how to create asynchronous service methods. 
27. Handling Form Submission - Learn how to create and submit a web form with Spring. 
28. Building an Application with Spring Boot - Learn how to build an application with minimal configuration. 
29. Using WebSocket to build an interactive web application - Learn how to the send and receive messages between a browser and the server over a WebSocket 
30. Working a Getting Started guide with STS - Learn how to import a Getting Started guide with Spring Tool Suite (STS). 
31. Consuming a RESTful Web Service with AngularJS - Learn how to retrieve web page data with AngularJS. 
32. Consuming a RESTful Web Service with rest.js - Learn how to retrieve web page data with rest.js. 
33. Consuming a RESTful Web Service with jQuery - Learn how to retrieve web page data with jQuery. 
34. Enabling Cross-Origin Requests for a RESTful Web Service - Learn how to create a RESTful web service with Spring that supports Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). 
35. Consuming a SOAP web service - Learn how to create a client that consumes a WSDL-based service 
36. Accessing JPA Data with REST - Learn how to work with RESTful, hypermedia-based data persistence using Spring Data REST. 
37. Accessing Neo4j Data with REST - Learn how to work with RESTful, hypermedia-based data persistence using Spring Data REST. 
38. Accessing MongoDB Data with REST - Learn how to work with RESTful, hypermedia-based data persistence using Spring Data REST. 
39. Accessing Data in Pivotal GemFire with REST - Learn how to work with RESTful, hypermedia-based data persistence using Spring Data REST. 
40. Producing a SOAP web service - Learn how to create a SOAP-based web service with Spring. 
41. Caching Data with Spring - Learn how to cache data in memory with Spring 
42. Deploying to Cloud Foundry from STS - Learn how to deploy a Spring application to Cloud Foundry from STS 
43. Spring Boot with Docker - Learn how to create a Docker container from a Spring Boot application with Maven or Gradle 
44. Working a Getting Started guide with IntelliJ IDEA - Learn how to work a Getting Started guide with IntelliJ IDEA. 
45. Creating CRUD UI with Vaadin - Use Vaadin and Spring Data JPA to build a dynamic UI 
46. Service Registration and Discovery - Learn how to register and find services with Eureka 
47. Centralized Configuration - Learn how to manage application settings from an external, centralized source 
48. Routing and Filtering - Learn how to route and filter requests to a microservice using Netflix Zuul 
49. Circuit Breaker - Learn how to degrade gracefully services using Hystrix 
50. Client Side Load Balancing with Ribbon and Spring Cloud - Dynamically support services coming up and going down without interrupting the client 
51. Testing the Web Layer - Learn how to test Spring Boot applications and MVC controllers. 
52. Accessing data with MySQL - Learn how to set up and manage user accounts on MySQL and how to configure Spring Boot to connect to it at runtime. 
53. Creating a Multi-Module Project - Learn how to build a library and package it for consumption in a Spring Boot application 
54. Creating API Documentation with Restdocs - Learn how to generate documentation for HTTP endpoints using Spring Restdocs 
55. Messaging with Google Cloud Pub/Sub - Learn how to exchange messages using Spring Integration channel adapters and Google Cloud Pub/Sub 
56. Building a Reactive RESTful Web Service - Learn how to create a RESTful web service with Reactive Spring. 
57. Consumer Driven Contracts - Learn how to with contract stubs and consuming that contract from another Spring application 
58. Accessing Vault - Learn how to use Spring Vault to load secrets from HashiCorp Vault 
59. Vault Configuration - Learn how to store and retrieve application configuration details in HashiCorp Vault 
60. Accessing Data Reactively with Redis - Learn how to reactively interface with Redis and Spring Data 
61. Deploying a Spring Boot app to Azure - Learn how to deploy a Spring Boot app to Azure. 
62. Building a Gateway -Learn how to configure a gateway

Tutorials

1. Spring Security and Angular - A tutorial on how to use Spring Security with a single page application with various backend architectures, ranging from a simple single server to an API gateway with OAuth2 authentication. 
2. React.js and Spring Data REST -  A tutorial based on the 5-part blog series by Greg Turnquist 
3. Spring Boot and OAuth2 - A tutorial on "social" login and single sign-on with Facebook and Github 
4. Building web applications with Spring Boot and Kotlin - Learn how to easily build and test web applications with Spring, Kotlin, Junit 5 and JPA

Free Open source projects using Spring framework and Spring Boot

Once you will familiar with Spring framework and Spring Boot then you can go through these free open source projects and have good hands-on experience.

• 10+ Free Open Source Projects Using Spring Boot (Very Useful)
• 20+ Free Open Source Projects Using Spring Framework

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