SPRING BOOT DEVELOPER TRAINING

• Upon completion of this course, participants will understand how to implement the following: 
  
• Spring configuration using Java Configuration and Annotations 
  
• Aspect-oriented programming with Spring 
  
• Testing Spring applications using JUnit 5
  
• Spring Data Access - JDBC, JPA and Spring Data 
  
• Spring Transaction Management 
  
• Simplifying applications with Spring Boot 
  
• Spring Boot auto-configuration, starters and properties
  
• Build a simple MVC application using Spring Boot, embedded Web Server and fat JARs or classic WARs
• Implementing REST with Spring MVC and Rest Template 
  
• Spring Security 
  
• Enable and extend metrics and monitoring capabilities using Spring Boot actuator 
  
• Utilize Spring Boot enhancements to testing

Prerequisites

• Basic understanding of Spring and/or completion of the Core Spring course
  
• Experience using Java 
  
• Git
  
• IDE (STS preferred)

REVIEW OF SPRING ESSENTIALS

• Why Spring
  
• Configuration using Spring
  
• Bean creation
  
• Data Management

SPRING BOOT INTRODUCTION

• Introduction to Spring Boot
  
• Value Proposition of Spring Boot
  
• High-level Spring Boot features
  
• Creating a simple Boot application using Spring
  
• Initialize web-site

SPRING BOOT DEPENDENCIES, AUTO-CONFIGURATION AND RUNTIME

• Dependency management using Spring Boot starters
  
• How auto-configuration works
  
• Configuration properties
  
• Overriding auto-configuration
  
• Using Command Line Runner

JPA WITH SPRING AND SPRING DATA

• A quick introduction to ORM with JPA
  
• Benefits of using Spring with JPA
  
• JPA configuration in Spring
  
• Configuring Spring JPA using Spring Boot
  
• Spring Data JPA dynamic repositories

SPRING MVC ARCHITECTURE AND OVERVIEW

• Introduction to Spring MVC and request processing
  
• Controller method signatures
  
• Using @Controller, @RestController and @GetMapping annotations
  
• Configuring Spring MVC with Spring Boot
  
• Spring Boot packaging options, JAR or WAR

REST WITH SPRING MVC

• An introduction to the REST architectural style
  
• Controlling HTTP response codes with @ResponseStatus
  
• Implementing REST with Spring MVC, @RequestMapping, @RequestBody and @ResponseBody
  
• Spring MVC’s HttpMessageConverters and automatic content negotiation

SPRING SECURITY

• What problems does Spring Security solve?
  
• Configuring authentication
  
• Implementing authorization by intercepting URLs
  
• Authorization using OAuth
  
• Authorization at the Java method-level
  
• Understanding the Spring Security filter chain

ACTUATORS, METRICS AND HEALTH INDICATORS

• Enabling Spring Boot Actuator
  
• Custom Metrics
  
• Health Indicators
  
• Creating custom Health Indicators
  
• External monitoring systems

SPRING BOOT TESTING ENHANCEMENTS

• Spring Boot testing overview
  
• Integration testing and slices
  
• Slices to test different layers of the application