That’s a wrap! “Learning #SpringBoot” ‘s 1st draft has been submitted to @PacktPub

By Greg Turnquist

Greg is a member of the Spring team, an author of several books on Spring Boot, conference speaker, and the lead for Spring Data JPA.

August 28, 2014

learning-spring-boot-ch-5Last night, I worked from 9:30pm until 2am on Learning Spring Boot. Whew! It was tough work, but I needed to pull it across the finish line. I had the code lined up quite nicely for the entire chapter. I simply need to tell the story of how all this stuff worked together.

As I’ve said before, security by itself is complicated. There is a lot of fine details involved. When someone first starts reading the reference docs of Spring Security, it can get real intimidating real fast. That isn’t Spring Security’s fault. It’s inherent to the nature of locking something down except for the right people in the right context with the right protections. “right” and “wrong” can be very hard to define in just a couple sentences.

I tried to walk through what is happening, provide a little “why is this happening” and finally leave some links for those that want to dig a little deeper and understand the incredibly complex stuff that Spring Security is ACTUALLY doing for them. The protocols Spring Security picks up and handles are quite complex, and when you get to the end, I hope the reader has a strong appreciation for how simple Spring Security has made it to give the developer control while still protecting system integrity.

With all that said, I breathed a big “whew!” as I bundled up this chapter’s manuscript and emailed it over to my editor at Packt. I have already started receiving feedback on the other chapters from my review team. These people are sharp! They really know Spring and have spotted some sloppy mistakes on my part. After I parse all their comments, this should be one well honed book!

asciidoctorI also have truly enjoyed the development process of this book. Writing it in asciidoctor has let me focus 95% of my effort on the content. I work with an IDE open so I can tweak the code, run it, tweak again, and then commit the changes. My manuscript simply includes code files and fragments, and I layer it with some prose to explain what is happening and why it’s happening. Here and there I put tips and notes to answer questions I can foresee.

Then on the command line, I constantly regenerate an HTML rendering of the book. I read through it in chunks and polish it up. After all is done, I finally open up the LibreOffice output and and walk through to fine tune bits of code that overrun the width of the page. By staying away from the word processor as much as possibly, the integrity of this book’s content has been kept at what I feel is tip-top shape.

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