Spring Framework 6 remains - by far - the leading de-facto "out of the box" practical Java meta application development framework for building complex enterprise, cloud-native applications as well as web applications and microservices. Introducing Spring Framework 6 is your hands-on tutorial guide for learning the Spring Framework 6 from top to bottom, and allows you to build an example application along the way from the ground-up. As you learn the Spring Framework step by step throughout this book, you'll incrementally start your first Spring application and build it, piece by piece, as you learn each module, project or component of the Spring Framework and its extensions and ecosystem. As you learn the various fundamentals, you'll then apply them immediately to your Spring application. This Spring application, My Documents, enables you to learn by doing. After reading this book, you will have the essentials you should need to start using the Spring Framework and building your own Java-based applications or microservices with it. What you'll learn: Get started with Spring Framework 6 by VMWare Tanzu and the Spring community Build your first My Documents application using Spring Framework and its extensions Test your Spring application Add persistence to your application using Spring Data JPA and more Show your Spring application on the Web with Spring MVC and related Use REST APIs to enhance your application and add messaging with Kafka and AMQP Integrate your Spring application with external systems using Spring Integration toolkit Who is this book for: This book is for those aspiring software developers and programmers who are new to Spring. Some prior programming experience recommended, preferably in Java.