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Greetings! I've been trying to wrap my head around the Spring framework for over a year now and it's one of the most interesting things I've discovered. Spring framework is an application framework for the Java platform and has many many features! Spring Framework Runtime The above image just shows a small subset of the Spring framework features used in Runtime. As is the norm now, the way I learn anything is to type into ChatGPT, 'Teach me ...' first before referring to more 'authoritative' sources so I did the same with the Spring Framework. Snippet of ChatGPT response for 'teach me spring' Most of the time, it ends up generating something as shown in the screenshot above recommending to create a controller with the '@Controller' annotation and return a view. ``` Java package com.example.demo.controller; import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller; import org.springframework.ui.Model; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetM...

Spring Framework Having worked in my current role for about 8 months, I have realized that to be a lynchpin, I need to understand Java programming, especially using Spring Framework and Angular front-end. Towards this end, I've spent a lot of my time and energy learning and honing this skill. Spring Framework Spring MVC - Model-View-Controller: Spring MVC Spring implements a Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern which is a software architectural pattern that separates an application into 3 interconnected components. This separation helps manage complexity & promotes organized coding. Model: Represents the data and the business logic of the application. It is responsible for retrieving data from databases, encapsulating it, and defining the business operations. View: This is the user interface of the application. It displays the data from the Model to the user and also sends user commands to the Controller. Controller: Acts as an intermediary between View and Model. It receive...