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Laurentiu Spilca

A lot of Java developers eventually reach the same point: they can read Spring code, follow a tutorial, maybe even ship a Spring Boot endpoint, but they still don’t feel fully clear on what Spring is doing for them and where the “magic” actually starts and stops. That’s the gap Laurentiu is aiming at here.

This new edition is built for Java developers who want a clean, practical path into modern Spring without getting buried in legacy configuration or framework folklore. It starts with the core ideas: contexts, beans, dependency injection, scopes, lifecycle, abstractions, and AOP, then moves into Spring Boot, Spring MVC, web scopes, REST services, persistence, transactions, Spring Data, and testing. The focus is very much on learning Spring as it is used now, with Spring Framework 6.x and Spring Boot 4, through small examples that explain the why behind the code.

Laurentiu has taught Spring to thousands of developers, and that comes through in the book’s style. It’s approachable, but not shallow; beginner-friendly, but written with real working Java developers in mind. If you’re trying to move from “I can make a Spring app run” to “I understand how this application is put together,” this is exactly the kind of book we think is worth following in early access.

The MEAP is live now, and we’d genuinely love to hear what DevTalk readers think as chapters roll out. If Spring is part of your work, your learning path, or your “I should finally understand this properly” list, take a look and tell us what would make the book most useful for you.

• Full details: Spring Start Here, Second Edition - Laurentiu Spilca

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