SPB : Spring Boot

Target Audience

Application developers who want to increase their understanding of Spring and Spring Boot and a focus on fundamentals.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

·         Describe the benefits provided by Spring Boot

·         Initialize a project using Spring Boot Starters

·         Leverage Spring Boot’s auto configuration features

·         Create simplified backing-store solutions using Spring Data JPA

·         Build a simple MVC application using Spring Boot, embedded Web Server and fat JARs or classic WARs  • Build a RESTful Web application

·         Use Spring Security to secure Web and REST endpoints

·         Enable and extend metrics and monitoring capabilities using Spring Boot actuator

·         Leverage advance configuration capabilities

·         Utilize Spring Boot enhancements to testing

Module 1 : Spring Boot Introduction

·       Introduction to Spring Boot Features

·       Value Proposition of Spring Boot

·       Creating a simple Boot application using Spring Initializr website

Module 2 : Spring Boot Dependencies, Auto-configuration, and Runtime

·       Dependency management using Spring Boot starters

·       How auto-configuration works

·       Configuration properties

·       Overriding auto-configuration

·       Using CommandLineRunner

Module 3 : JPA with Spring and Spring Data

·       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

Module 4 : 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

Module 5 : 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

Module 6 : Spring Security

·       What problems does Spring Security solve?

·       Configuring authentication

·       Implementing authorization by intercepting URLs

·       Authorization at the Java method level

·       Understanding the Spring Security filter chain

·       Spring security testing

Module 7 : Actuators, Metrics and Health Indicators

·       Exposing Spring Boot Actuator endpoints

·       Custom Metrics

·       Health Indicators

·       Creating custom Health Indicators

·       External monitoring systems

Module 8 : Spring Boot Testing Enhancements

·       Spring Boot testing overview

·       Integration testing using @SpringBootTest

·       Web slice testing with MockMvc framework

·       Slices to test different layers of the application

·         A good working knowledge on web application development using Java and an IDE (Eclipse, STS or IntelliJ).

·         Basic understanding of Spring: Java Config, component- scanning, Spring driven testing and Spring data-management (JdbcTemplate, @Transactional).

·         Experience using Java and build tools such as Maven or Gradle.

Certification : Spring Certified Professional

Courses : Spring Core Training & Spring Boot