15 Years of Spring: Evolving a Java Application Framework

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Framework timeline: 15 years from 2002/03 to today, evolution centers on concrete changes not slogans: migration to JDK 5/6/8, the rise of Spring Boot (auto-configuration and BOM dependency management around 2014), and Spring Framework 5 (Sept 2017) adding reactive WebFlux built on Project Reactor, plus support for Tomcat/Jetty/Netty HTTP engines. New APIs include functional bean registration using Java 8 lambdas and Kotlin KFunction helpers, Spring Data reactive repositories, and proven production features like WebSocket support and auto-configuration.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Spring
2. 3:32The origins of Spring
3. 9:49Early framework evolution
4. 13:40Growth and diversification
5. 19:45Spring 3 development
6. 26:00Spring 4 and Java 8
7. 31:26The rise of Spring Boot
8. 35:11Spring Framework 5 preview
9. 39:06Functional programming models
10. 47:40Reactive web architectures
11. 56:39Spring Boot 2 and adoption
12. 59:31Future outlook and conclusion

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