If you are impatient, and you want to use Spring, then this is the place to be. We present a toolkit and runtime platform that will get you up and running with Spring-powered, production-grade applications and services with absolute minimum face plants. The goals are:
* Radically faster and widely accessible getting started experience for Spring development
* Be opinionated out of the box, but get out of the way quickly as requirements start to diverge from the defaults
* Provide a range of non-functional features that are common to large classes of projects (e.g. embedded servers, security, metrics, health checks, externalized configuration)
* First class support for REST-ful services, modern web applications, batch jobs, and enterprise integration
* Applications that adapt their behaviour or configuration to their environment
* Optionally use Groovy features like DSLs and AST transformations to accelerate the implementation of basic business
requirements
We illustrate how these goals can be achieved through a series of demonstrations, and in-depth reviews of the design principles and codebase of new features in Spring 4.0 and friends.
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