Spring Boot: Developer
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- Formats:
Classroom,
Live Online,
vFlex-ILT,
Onsite
- Length: 2 Days
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. This course is also available in an On Demand format. For more information, select this link: Spring Boot: Developer - On Demand. |
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| 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 • Utilize Spring Boot enhancements to testing • Use Spring Security to secure Web and REST endpoints • Enable and extend metrics and monitoring capabilities using Spring Boot actuator • Leverage advance configuration capabilities |
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| Intended Audience: | Application developers who want to increase their understanding of Spring and Spring Boot and a focus on fundamentals. | |
| 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 data- management (JdbcTemplate, @Transactional). • Experience using Java and build tools such as Maven or Gradle. |
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| Outline: | 1 Introduction to Spring Essentials • Why Spring • Configuration using Spring • Bean creation • Data Management 2 Spring Boot Introduction • Introduction to Spring Boot Features • Value Proposition of Spring Boot • Creating a simple Boot application using Spring Initializr website 3 Spring Boot – A Closer Look • Dependency management using Spring Boot starters • How auto-configuration works • Configuration properties • Overriding auto-configuration • Using CommandLineRunner 4 Spring Boot – Spring Data JPA • 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 5 Web Applications with Spring Boot • 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 6 RESTful Application with Spring Boot • 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 7 Spring Boot Testing • Spring Boot testing overview • Integration testing using @SpringBootTest • Web slice testing with MockMvc framework • Slices to test different layers of the application 8 Securing REST Application with 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 9 Actuators, Metrics and Health Indicators • Exposing Spring Boot Actuator endpoints • Custom Metrics • Health Indicators • Creating custom Health Indicators • External monitoring systems |
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