Over the course of the last decade and a half, Spring Framework has dramatically improved the experience of developing Java Enterprise applications. With Spring Framework 5.0, it brings in a lot of features while significantly increasing the baselines.

In the subsequent chapters, we will cover dependency injection and understand how we can develop web applications with Spring MVC. After that, we will move into the world of microservices. In Chapters 5, Building Microservices with Spring Boot, Chapter 6, Extending Microservices, and Chapter 7, Advanced Spring Boot Features, we will cover how Spring Boot makes the creation of microservices simpler. We will then shift our attention to building applications in the Cloud with Spring Cloud and Spring Cloud Data Flow.