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Programmers using Spring (Java) professionally, how did you learn it? (lemmy.world)

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Would you recommend courses, books, documentation, or jumping straight to a project and googling things along the way? I have a solid foundation of Java and want to start learning how to develop web apps with it.

Any help much appreciated

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Trial by fire. We were in the infancy stages of a project and the alternative OTS options were really bad for our use case. We had a project manager that really believed in our group and pointed us to the Spring framework as one they had used in the past to solve a number of the same issues we were facing at the time. I had mainly worked in very heavy custom Java environments (no frameworks, and very few third-party dependencies) so dropping into a Framework with actual rules/guidelines was so nice and I'm currently noodling out how to rewrite some of our legacy apps in Spring because of how much it slots into our workflows.

I don't love programming books and find them very hard to follow, so I leaned heavily on Baeldung and StackOverflow for most of my questions. Like some of the other comments in this thread, I had a hard time understanding dependency injection since I had no prior experience with it, but man-oh-man is it useful.