🌱 Learning Spring

A personal repository created to learn and experiment with the Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
This project contains small practice examples and experiments to understand how modern Java backend applications are built using Spring.

Repository:
https://github.com/malcolm-cephas/LearningSpring

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📚 About the Project

The purpose of this repository is to explore and practice the core concepts of the Spring ecosystem.

Spring is a powerful Java framework that simplifies the development of enterprise applications by providing built-in support for:

• Dependency Injection (DI)
• Web applications
• REST APIs
• Database access
• Application configuration
• Security

This repository acts as a learning workspace where different Spring features and components are implemented and tested.

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🚀 Technologies Used

Technology	Purpose
Java	Core programming language
Spring Framework	Backend framework
Spring Boot	Simplifies Spring application setup
Maven	Build and dependency management
HTML / CSS	Basic frontend components

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📂 Project Structure

LearningSpring
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├── src
│   ├── main
│   │   ├── java        # Java source code
│   │   └── resources   # Configuration files and templates
│   │
│   └── test            # Test cases
│
├── pom.xml             # Maven dependencies
└── README.md           # Project documentation

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⚙️ Getting Started

Prerequisites

Make sure the following are installed:

• Java JDK 17+
• Maven
• Git
• An IDE such as IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, or VS Code

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📥 Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/malcolm-cephas/LearningSpring.git
cd LearningSpring

2. Build the project

mvn clean install

3. Run the application

mvn spring-boot:run

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🧠 Topics Covered

This repository may include practice implementations of:

• Spring Boot Basics
• Dependency Injection (IoC Container)
• Spring MVC
• REST API development
• Spring Data JPA
• Database integration
• Application configuration

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🔗 References

These resources were helpful while learning Spring:

Spring Official Documentation
https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot

Spring Guides
https://spring.io/guides

Spring Framework Documentation
https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/reference/html/

Spring Boot Reference Guide
https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/

Baeldung Spring Tutorials
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-tutorial

Java Documentation
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome if you want to add examples or improvements.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a new branch

git checkout -b feature/new-feature

3. Commit your changes

git commit -m "Added new feature"

4. Push the branch

git push origin feature/new-feature

5. Open a Pull Request

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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