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 This project is **a collection of small and focused tutorials** - each covering a single and well defined area of development in the Java ecosystem. 
-A strong focus of these is, of course, the Spring Framework - Spring, Spring Boot and Spring Securiyt. 
+A strong focus of these is, of course, the Spring Framework - Spring, Spring Boot and Spring Security. 
 In additional to Spring, the following technologies are in focus: `core Java`, `Jackson`, `HttpClient`, `Guava`.