Summary

In this chapter, you learnt the fundamentals of the Spring web framework with a focus on understanding the key concepts such as IOC container, Dispatcher servlet, implementing controllers, web requests and response handling, using custom interceptors, and so on. You also learnt how to create a web application using Spring Boot, how to create a RESTful web service, and finally, how to Dockerize a Spring Boot application.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to prepare a Spring web development environment.