Explore a live coding session demonstrating how the Across platform addresses two common challenges in creating custom web applications with Spring Framework. Learn to build an administration UI for managing data by generating a simple application with JPA entities and Spring Data repositories. Discover how to customize and extend the generated admin UI. Then, delve into adding basic web content management functions to your webapp, starting with static markup in Thymeleaf and using WebCmsModule to create user-editable content sections. Gain insights into incrementally building web applications while leveraging the full power of Spring-based development, using JPA, Spring Data, and Thymeleaf alongside open-source Across modules.