This book will teach you how to build complex Spring applications and microservices out of the box, with minimal concern over things like configurations. Pro Spring Boot 3 will show you how to fully leverage Spring Boot 3's robust features and how to apply them to create enterprise-ready applications, microservices, and web/cloud applications that just work. Special focus is given to what's been added in the new Spring Boot 3 release, including support for Java 17 and 19; changes to Spring Security; Spring Boot Actuator with Micrometer updates; GraalVM support; RSocket service interfaces; many dependency upgrades; more flexible support for Spring Data JDBC, the new AOT (Ahead-of-Time Transformation); and much more.This book is your authoritative, pragmatic guide for increasing your enterprise Java and cloud application productivity while decreasing development time. It's a no-nonsense reference packed with casestudies that increase in complexity over the course of the book. The author, a senior solutions architect and Principal Technical instructor with VMware, the company behind the Spring Framework, shares his experience, insights, and firsthand knowledge about how Spring Boot technology works and best practices for getting the most out of it.This is an essential book for your Spring learning and reference library.What You Will LearnBuild web/cloud, microservices, and enterprise applications with the Spring Boot 3 frameworkPersist data with JDBC, JPA, and NoSQL databasesMessage with JMS, RabbitMQ, WebSockets, and RSocketGain a review of Spring Cloud projectsExtend Spring Boot by creating your own Spring Boot Starter and @Enable featureTest and deploy with Spring Boot with best practicesUnderstand the new AOT (Ahead-Of-Time Transformations) and the GraalVM support to go nativeUse the latest version of Spring SecurityWho This Book Is ForExperienced Spring and Java developers seeking increased productivity gains and decreased complexity and development time in their applications and software services.