Spring Developer Boot Camp | Spring Core, Boot, AOP, Data, REST & More|System Source

The Spring framework is an application framework that provides a lightweight container that supports the creation of simple-to-complex components in a non-invasive fashion. Spring's flexibility and transparency is congruent and supportive of incremental development and testing. The framework's structure supports the layering of functionality such as persistence, transactions, view-oriented frameworks, and enterprise systems and capabilities. This course targets Spring 5.x, which includes full support for Java SE 11 and Java EE 8. Spring supports the use of lambda expressions and method references in many of its APIs.

Spring makes enterprise development easier. Spring simplifies common tasks and encourages good design based on programming to interfaces. Spring makes your application easier to configure and reduces the need for many JEE design patterns. Spring puts the OO design back into your enterprise application, and it integrates nicely with many view technologies and the new features of HTML5.

Mastering Spring 5.x Developer Boot Camp is a hands-on Spring training course geared for experienced Java developers who need to understand what the Spring Framework is in terms of today's systems and architectures, and how to use Spring in conjunction with other technologies and frameworks. This leading-edge course provides added coverage of Spring's Aspect-Oriented Programming and the use of Spring Boot. Students will gain hands-on experience working with Spring, using Maven for project and dependency management.


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This course provides a solid understanding of what Spring brings to the table and how to use Spring in the context of other technologies and frameworks. Students are taken on an in-depth tour of the basic Spring framework, initially examining concepts such as Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection, and then working with the container and basic components. Students are introduced to Spring Boot and use Spring Boot throughout the remainder of the course. The latter part of the class looks at implementing REST with Spring and takes a deep dive into Spring Boot to prepare students for more extended Spring Boot usage.

This course combines engaging instructor-led presentations and useful demonstrations with valuable hands-on labs and engaging group activities. Throughout the course you will learn how to:

Explain the issues associated with complex frameworks such as JEE and how Spring addresses those issues
Understand the relationships between Spring and JEE, AOP, IOC and ORM.
Write applications that take advantage of the Spring container and the declarative nature of assembling simple components into applications.
Understand how to configure the Spring Boot framework
Understand and work on integrating persistence into a Spring application
Work with Spring Boot to facilitate Spring setup and configuration
Apply Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) to Spring applications
Use Spring Data JPA to implement the persistence layer of an application
Develop REST applications using Spring 5
Work with Spring Boot to facilitate Spring setup and configuration

If your team requires different topics, additional skills or a custom approach, our team will collaborate with you to adjust the course to focus on your specific learning objectives and goals.

Viewing outline for:

Session: Introduction to Spring

1. The Spring Framework

Understand the value of Spring
Explore Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IoC)
Introduce different ways of configuring collaborators
Spring as an Object Factory
Initializing the Spring IoC Container

2. Configuring Spring Managed Beans

Introduce Java-based configuration
The @Configuration and @Bean annotations
Define bean dependencies
Bootstrapping Java Config
Context Injection in Configuration classes
Using context Profiles
Conditionally loading beans and configurations
Bean Life-Cycle Methods

3. Defining Bean dependencies

Introduce Spring annotations for defining dependencies
Explore the @Autowired annotation
Stereotype Annotations
Qualifying injection points
Lifecycle annotations
Using properties in Java based configuration
The @Value annotation
Using the Candidate Components Index

4. Introduction to Spring Boot

Introduce the basics of Spring Boot
Explain auto-configuration
Introduce the Spring Initializr application
Bootstrapping a Spring Boot application

5. Working with Spring Boot

Provide an overview of Spring Boot
Introduce starter dependencies
Introduce auto-configuration
@Enable... annotations
Conditional configuration
Spring Boot Externalized Configuration
Bootstrapping Spring Boot

Session: Spring AOP

6. Introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming

Aspect Oriented Programming
Cross Cutting Concerns
Spring AOP
Spring AOP in a Nutshell
@AspectJ support
Spring AOP advice types
AspectJ pointcut designators

Session: Spring Data

8. Spring Data Overview

Spring Data Capabilities and Features
Spring Data repositories
The Repository interfaces
Defining the JPA entity
Persisting entities using Spring Data JPA
Bootstrapping the Spring Data application

9. Spring Data Query Methods

Querying data using Query methods
Query builder mechanism
Handling an Absence of Value
Pagination and Ordering
Asynchronous query methods
Count and Delete Derived Query methods

10. Spring Data JPA Queries

JPA named queries
@Query and @NamedQuery annotations
Defining Query parameters
Executing native queries
SpEL expressions in queries
Managing the Persistence Context after updates

Session: Implementing REST with Spring

11. REST principles

Introduce the six architectural constraints of REST
Introduce Resources and Resource representations
Best practices for defining Resource URIs

12. Introduction to RESTful Services in Spring

Discuss the request-response cycle of REST requests
Defining a REST Controller in Spring
Explain the @ResponseBody annotation
Define request mappings
Use path variables

13. Introduction to REST Clients in Spring

Introduce RestTemplate class
Making GET, POST, PUT, HEAD, OPTIONS and DELETE requests
Introduce the UriTemplate class
Using HttpEntity and RequestEntity
Use the exchange method to define 'complex' requests
Process requests and responses using callback
Configure the RestTemplate

14. Bootstrapping the REST application

Describe steps needed to bootstrap Spring REST application
Configure Content Representation libraries
Configure Spring MVC and map the Dispatcher Servlet
Explain the advantages of using Spring Boot to setup the REST project
Setup a Spring REST application using Spring Boot

15. Content Representation

Returning different media types from service
Introduce negotiated resource representation
Configure Message Converters

16. Implementing the REST Service

Process for Spring REST Implementation
The Domain object
Using Project Lombok to define the domain object
(Not) Using Data Transfer Objects
ResponseEntity builder interfaces
Setting Location header using UriComponentsBuilder

Session: Spring Boot 2

17. Spring Boot Actuator

Understand Spring Boot Actuators
Work with predefined Actuator endpoints
Enabling Actuator endpoints
Securing the Actuator

Bonus Topics: Time Permitting

These topics will be included in your course materials but may or may not be presented during the live class depending on the pace of the course and attendee skill level and participation.

18. Developing in Spring Boot

Introduce Spring Boot Devtools
Enable the ConditionEvaluationReport
Debugging Spring Boot applications

19. Thymeleaf

Provide a quick overview of Thymeleaf
Introduce Thymeleaf templates
Create and run a Spring Thymeleaf MVC application

Take Before: Students should have incoming practical skills aligned with those in the course(s) below, or should have attended the following course(s) as a pre-requisite:

Fast Track to Core Java Programming for OO Developers (C+, C#, etc.)
Fast Track to Core Java Programming for OO Experienced Developers
Basic Java Programming for Developers New to OO (C, COBOL, etc.)

This course is geared for experienced Java developers new to Spring.

Spring Developer Boot Camp | Spring Core, Boot, AOP, Data, REST & More

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Session: Introduction to Spring

Session: Spring AOP

Session: Spring Data

Session: Implementing REST with Spring

Session: Spring Boot 2

Bonus Topics: Time Permitting

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