The Spring framework revolutionized enterprise application development in the Java world. It has continued to be the framework of choice for almost 15 years.

This section will help you get started with the two most important Spring Projects: Spring Framework and Spring Boot. We will understand the modularity of the Spring Framework and discuss several Spring Modules.

The following chapters are covered under this section:

• Chapter 1, Spring Landscape – Framework, Modules, and Projects
• Chapter 2, Dependency Injection and Unit Testing
• Chapter 3, Building Web Applications with Spring MVC
• Chapter 4, Getting Started with Spring Boot
• Chapter 5, Digging Deeper into the Spring Framework