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Mastering Spring 5.0

You're reading from   Mastering Spring 5.0 Master reactive programming, microservices, Cloud Native applications, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787123175
Length 496 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Evolution to Spring Framework 5.0 FREE CHAPTER 2. Dependency Injection 3. Building a Web Application with Spring MVC 4. Evolution toward Microservices and Cloud-Native Applications 5. Building Microservices with Spring Boot 6. Extending Microservices 7. Advanced Spring Boot Features 8. Spring Data 9. Spring Cloud 10. Spring Cloud Data Flow 11. Reactive Programming 12. Spring Best Practices 13. Working with Kotlin in Spring

Kotlin versus Java

Java was developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995. It has remained a popular language for more than two decades now.

One of the important reasons for the popularity of Java is the Java platform including the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The Java platform provides security and portability for the Java language. A number of languages emerged in the last few years that aimed to leverage the advantages of the Java platform. They compile to the bytecode and can run on the JVM. These languages include the following frameworks:

  • Clojure
  • Groovy
  • Scala
  • JRuby
  • Jython

Kotlin aims to address some of the important issues in the Java language and provide a concise alternative. Some of the important differences with the Java language are as follows.

Variables...

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