Craig Walls

Craig Walls is a software developer at Pivotal. He's a popular author and a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences. Craig lives in Cross Roads, Texas.

books by Craig Walls

Spring in Action, Fifth Edition

  • October 2018
  • ISBN 9781617294945
  • 520 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: German, Korean, Polish, Simplified Chinese

Spring in Action, 5th Edition guides you through Spring’s core features, explained in Craig Walls’ famously clear style. You’ll roll up your sleeves and build a secure database-backed web app step by step. Along the way, you’ll explore reactive programming, microservices, service discovery, RESTful APIs, deployment, and expert best practices. Whether you’re just discovering Spring or leveling up to Spring 5.0, this Manning classic is your ticket!

Spring Boot in Action

  • December 2015
  • ISBN 9781617292545
  • 264 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Korean, Simplified Chinese

Spring Boot in Action is a developer-focused guide to writing applications using Spring Boot. In it, you'll learn how to bypass configuration steps so you can focus on your application's behavior. Spring expert Craig Walls uses interesting and practical examples to teach you both how to use the default settings effectively and how to override and customize Spring Boot for your unique environment. Along the way, you'll pick up insights from Craig's years of Spring development experience.

Spring in Action, Fourth Edition

  • November 2014
  • ISBN 9781617291203
  • 624 pages
  • printed in black & white

Spring in Action, Fourth Edition is a hands-on guide to the Spring Framework, updated for version 4. It covers the latest features, tools, and practices including Spring MVC, REST, Security, Web Flow, and more. You'll move between short snippets and an ongoing example as you learn to build simple and efficient J2EE applications. Author Craig Walls has a special knack for crisp and entertaining examples that zoom in on the features and techniques you really need.