Spring Boot Developer Guide

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This is beginners to expert Spring Boot tutorial.  We have used the latest release of Spring Boot 2+ in all examples. This tutorial gives you all the possible Spring boot features that are required to build a Spring-based enterprise J2EE web applications or RESTful APIs. Spring Boot uses a completely new development model to make Java Development very easy by avoiding some tedious development steps and boilerplate code and configuration.

Get source code of this tutorial on my GitHub Repository.

Spring Boot Tutorials and Guides

Spring Boot Basics

  Getting Started with Spring Boot
  Create Spring Boot Project With Spring Initializer
  Create Spring Boot Project in Spring Tool Suite [STS] // Popular

  Installing Spring Boot with Maven and Gradle
  Standard Project Structure for Spring Boot Projects // Popular

  Spring Boot 2 Hello World Application // Popular

  Overview of Spring Boot Starter Parent

  Important Spring Boot Starters with Examples
  Spring Boot Embedded Servers - Tomcat, Jetty and Undertow

  Spring Boot How to Change Port and Context Path // Popular

  Spring Boot 2 Deploy WAR file to External Tomcat // Popular
  SpringBootServletInitializer Class in Spring Boot // Popular
  Different Ways of Running Spring Boot Application
  Migrating from Spring to Spring Boot
  Spring Boot Annotations // Popular
  SpringApplication Class in Spring Boot with Examples  // Popular

  Spring Boot CLI Commands

  Spring RestTemplate - Spring REST Client GET, POST, PUT and DELETE Example

Spring Boot REST API Development

  Spring Boot 2 Hibernate 5 MySQL CRUD REST API Tutorial 

  Spring Boot 2 JPA MySQL CRUD Example
  Spring Boot 2 Hello World Application

  Spring Boot 2 CRUD REST APIs Validation Example

  Spring Data JPA Auditing with Spring Boot 2 and MySQL Example

  Spring Boot 2 Exception Handling for REST APIs

  Spring Boot 2 Logging SLF4j Logback and LOG4j2 Example
  Spring Boot 2 + Jersey REST + JPA + Hibernate 5 CRUD REST APIs Example
  Spring Boot 2 - Scheduling Tasks
  Spring Boot 2 RESTful API Documentation with Swagger 2 Tutorial
  Spring Boot 2 - File Upload and Download Rest API Tutorial // LATEST
  Spring Boot - Loading Initial Data

Spring Boot Web Application Development

  Spring Boot Thymeleaf CRUD Example Tutorial // Popular

  Spring MVC + Spring Boot2 + JSP + JPA + Hibernate 5 + MySQL Example

  Spring Boot 2 MVC Web Application Thymeleaf JPA MySQL Example // Popular
  Spring Boot 2 - Spring MVC + Thymeleaf Input Form Validation
  Spring Boot JPA Multiple Data Sources Example // Popular

Spring Boot + Angular 6/7/8 Tutorials

  Spring Boot + Angular 8 Example Tutorial
  Spring Boot + Angular 6 CRUD Example // Popular
  Spring Boot 2 + Angular 7 CRUD Example Tutorial // Popular
  Angular 8 + Spring Boot 2 Example Tutorial // LATEST
  Spring Boot + Angular 8 + WebSocket Example Tutorial // LATEST

Spring Boot with Spring Security

  Spring Boot 2 + Role Based Spring Security + JPA + Thymeleaf + MySQL Tutorial // Popular
  Authenticating a User with LDAP using Spring Boot and Spring Security
  User Registration Module + Spring Boot 2 + Spring Security + Hibernate 5 + Thymeleaf + MySQL // Popular

Spring Boot + Spring AOP

  Spring Boot + Spring AOP Logging Example Tutorial // Popular

  Spring AOP + AspectJ @Before, @After, @AfterReturning, @AfterThrowing, and @Around

Spring Boot + Spring Data JPA

  SpringBoot JpaRepository Example Tutorial

  Spring Boot CrudRepository Example Tutorial

  Spring Data JPA Repository Testing using Spring Boot @DataJpaTest

  Spring Boot JPA Multiple Data Sources Example // Popular

  Spring Boot 2 JPA MySQL CRUD Example

  Spring Data JPA Auditing with Spring Boot 2 and MySQL Example

Spring Boot Configuration Examples

  Spring Boot 2 Java Based Configuration Example
  Spring Boot 2 XML Configuration Example
  Migrating from Spring to Spring Boot

Spring Boot Testing

  Spring Data JPA Repository Testing using Spring Boot @DataJpaTest

  Spring Boot 2 REST APIs Integration Testing

  Spring Boot 2 with JUnit 5 Testing Example // Popular

Spring Boot Annotations

  Spring Boot @EnableAutoConfiguration Annotation with Example

  Spring Boot @SpringBootApplication Annotation with Example // Popular
  Spring Boot Annotations
  Spring Boot - Creating Asynchronous Methods using @Async Annotation

Spring Boot + Databases

  Spring Boot + PostgreSQL + JPA/Hibernate CRUD Restful API Tutorial // Popular
  Spring Boot + Microsoft SQL Server + JPA/Hibernate CRUD Restful API Tutorial // Popular
  Configure Spring boot application with H2, HSQL, and Derby embedded databases //LATEST

Spring Boot with JSON

  Configure Spring Boot with Gson or Jackson or JSON-B  // LATEST

Spring Boot Mini Projects

  Mini Todo Management Project using Spring Boot + Spring MVC + Spring Security + JSP + Hibernate + MySQL // Popular
  User Registration Module using Spring Boot + Spring MVC + Spring Security + Hibernate 5 + Thymeleaf + MySQL // Popular

10+ Free Open Source Projects Using Spring Boot (Very Useful)

Spring Boot Best Practices (Very Useful)

Spring Boot GitHub Repository

The source code all these articles are hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/RameshMF/spring-boot-tutorial:

Spring Boot Interview Preparation

Here is a list of links from a top website for preparing Spring Boot interview questions and answers.

• Spring Boot Interview Questions and Answers // from my site
• Spring Boot Interview Questions // from springboottutorial.com
• Spring Boot Interview Questions // by journaldev.com
• Spring Boot Interview Questions // from javatpoint.com
• Top 15 Spring Boot Interview Questions with Answers for Java/JEE Programmers // from java67.com
• Spring Boot Interview Questions and Answers // from dineshonjava.com

Spring Boot Other Writeups

• Why Spring Boot?
• How Spring Boot Autoconfiguration Magic Works
• Creating a Spring Boot Project With Eclipse and Maven
• How to debug Spring Boot application with Eclipse?
• Spring Boot Remove Whitelabel Error Page
• Difference between Spring MVC and Spring Boot
• What is the purpose of mvnw and mvnw.cmd files?
• How to add a filter class in Spring Boot?
• Java Spring Boot: How to map my app root (“/”) to index.html?
• JSON Java 8 LocalDateTime format in Spring Boot
• Spring Boot - Loading Initial Data
• Disable Logback in SpringBoot
• Programmatically shut down Spring Boot application
• Configure DataSource programmatically in Spring Boot
• Spring Boot: Customize Whitelabel Error Page
• Shutdown a Spring Boot Application
• Guide to Internationalization in Spring Boot
• Creating a Custom Starter with Spring Boot
• Spring Boot Security Auto-Configuration

10+ Free Open Source Projects Using Spring Boot (Very Useful)

References

• Spring Boot Reference Documentation
• https://start.spring.io/
• https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot

Suggest if you have useful articles or posts or tutorials in the comment section so that I will add to my Collections of Useful links and Resources section and everyone can refer it.