OVERVIEW
This 2-day course offers experience with Spring Boot and its major features, including auto-configuration, Actuator,
Spring Boot testing framework and more. On completion, participants will have a foundation for creating enterprise and cloud-ready applications.
Please note that this course is a subset of the material in our 4-day Spring: Core Training course - there is no need to take both courses. This course is recommended if you have a good working knowledge of Spring Basics (see
Prerequisites) but are new to Spring Boot.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
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
PREREQUISITES
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 datamanagement (JdbcTemplate, @Transactional).
Experience using Java and build tools such as Maven or Gradle.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Course Outline :: Spring Boot Developer::
Application developers who want to increase their understanding of Spring and Spring Boot and a focus on fundamentals.
COURSE MODULES
Introduction To Spring Essentials
Why Spring
Configuration using Spring
Bean creation
Data Management
Spring Boot Introduction
Introduction to Spring Boot Features
Value Proposition of Spring Boot
Creating a simple Boot application using Spring Initializr 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 CommandLineRunner
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
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
Course Outline :: Spring Boot Developer::
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 at the Java method level
Understanding the Spring Security filter chain
Spring security testing
Actuators, Metrics And Health Indicators
Exposing Spring Boot Actuator endpoints
Custom Metrics
Health Indicators
Creating custom Health Indicators
External monitoring systems
Spring Boot Testing Enhancements
Spring Boot testing overview
Integration testing using @SpringBootTest
Slices to test different layers of the application
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.