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This book is a practical, in-depth guide to using Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 for building modern, robust web APIs and services. The book leverages the author’s 20 years of industry experience to cover a wide range of topics essential for API development, including RESTful web service fundamentals, Spring concepts, and API specifications.
This second edition expands on topics like security, testing, monitoring, and deploying APIs with the latest tools and frameworks, and all the code examples in the book are based on the latest LTS version, Java 17. You’ll explore asynchronous API design, security, designing user interfaces, testing APIs, and the deployment of web services. This book offers a highly contextual real-world sample app that you can use as a reference for building different types of APIs for real-world applications. This sample app will lead you through the entire API development cycle, encompassing design and specification, implementation, testing, and deployment.
By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to design, develop, test, and deploy scalable and maintainable modern APIs using Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3, which has improved support for reactive programming, along with best practices for bolstering the security and reliability of your apps and improving your app's overall functionality.