Spring Framework 5.2 — Core Container Revisited
summary
Covers what’s new in Spring Framework 5.2: support for Java 8+, Kotlin, functional and reactive programming, plus integration of R2DBC (reactive database access) and RSocket into Spring’s transaction and messaging abstractions. Describes reflection optimizations, more flexible annotation handling, and features that reduce startup time and enable deployments on GraalVM and with generated indexes.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:10Spring 5.2 overview
- 10:20Programmatic bean registration
- 16:01Performance improvements
- 23:08Faster startup
- 27:01Hibernate integration
- 31:20Jackson JSON streaming
- 32:46GraalVM native images
- 37:00Fibers and lightweight threads
- 41:14Reactive programming
- 45:06Reactive transactions
- 48:20Socket.IO event handling
- 52:59Reactive programming basics
- 56:30Summary








