Hello, welcome back! I’m sure you’ve noticed that this blog has been…haphazard to put it lightly. I’ve moved around from Java to Git to SQL, and now Spring and Spring Boot? Why-? In the interest of transparency, this blog has been a side effect/result of a training program I’m in. I’ve been trying to treat it not just as an assignment and make it interesting, but it has been points given in an exam here and there.
Also as part of that training program, we were asked to install Spring Tools Suite 4 for Eclipse, which I did and have been using for the last few weeks. I never asked what “Spring Tools” meant back when I installed it, nor did I ask what it meant while I’ve been developing programs in it, but recently we’ve gotten to that topic in class, as well as Spring Boot and how to write a SOAP webservice and a RESTful API(Possible blogs to come on their own!) Knowing about Spring and Spring Boot when developing webservices can be quite useful, but it can be hard to know when to draw the line between the two, and with how prevalent they’ve become in recent years, it’s bound to come up in a perspective full-stack developer career. Let’s check out what they are and the differences now.
Spring Framework
Spring is a very popular Java Enterprise Edition framework used to build applications. It offers not only a wide range of features and focus on many areas in an application, but overall offers a complete and intense infrastructural support for developing Java applications. Possibly the biggest feature offered is dependency injection, which allows developers to create loosely coupled applications, making development much simpler overall. In total, a goal of Spring is to simplify the Java EE development, helping developers be more productive as they work on applications.
Features of Spring:
- Dependency Injection
- Spring MVC Framework
- Spring MVC Test
- Validation
- Type Conversion
Spring Boot — What’s Different?
In a fashion akin to how Spring came to be-trying to solve problems with developing Java EE applications, Spring Boot was created to fix some problems with Spring. Spring was awesome with it’s capabilities, but it still required quite a bit of slow, awkward work to set up basic projects because the Spring MVC(Model-View-Controller) provided only basic functionality. While Spring was extremely flexible in options for developers, Spring Boot is an extension of Spring which aspired to make it even simpler to develop web applications while greatly shortening code length for the same functionality, often with less work involved. In shorter terms, Spring Boot eliminates need for the cumbersome boilerplate code needed to build Spring applications.
Special Features of Spring Boot:
- Autoconfiguration
- Annotation Configuration
- Default Code
- Properties Files
- Application events and listeners
In conclusion, the Spring and Spring Boot frameworks make it easier to create dynamic, enterprise applications online.
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