The latest articles on DEV Community by Mujuzi Moses  (@iammujuzimoses). https://dev.to/iammujuzimoses https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4047712%2F948e3867-6c70-4e52-8f3b-ea5264b061a1.png https://dev.to/iammujuzimoses en Mujuzi Moses  Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:32:09 +0000 https://dev.to/iammujuzimoses/building-spring-by-example-jkg https://dev.to/iammujuzimoses/building-spring-by-example-jkg <p>When I started learning Spring, I noticed something about the tutorials I found.</p> <p>Many showed how to use a feature, but not always why it worked or when you should choose one approach over another.</p> <p>I learn best by building things and documenting what I discover, so I decided to start a project called spring-by-example.</p> <p>Instead of creating one large application, I’m building a collection of small, focused examples—each one exploring a single Spring concept with clear explanations, tests, and documentation.</p> <p>So far I’ve worked through:</p> <ul> <li>Spring Beans</li> <li>Dependency Injection</li> <li>Constructor Injection</li> <li>Setter Injection</li> <li>Field Injection</li> <li>Choosing an Injection Strategy</li> </ul> <p>I’m sharing the journey here as I continue learning. My hope is that, over time, this grows into a resource that helps other developers understand Spring one concept at a time.</p> <p>If you’ve learned Spring, what concept took you the longest to fully understand?</p> <h1> java #springframework #opensource #github #learninginpublic #backend #softwareengineering </h1> beginners java learning programming