Spring Boot Developer, United Kingdom

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Building on the benefits of the Spring framework, Spring Boot represents the next chapter in Java development. Spring Boot’s opinionated approach removes much of the boilerplate and configuration that characterizes Spring, making development faster and deployment easier.

This course offers hands-on experience with Spring Boot and its major features, including auto-configuration, data access, Actuator, and more. On completion, participants will have a foundation for creating enterprise-ready applications.

A good working knowledge of web application development using Java and an IDE. Basic understanding of Spring: Java Config, component-scanning, Spring driven testing and Spring data-management (â€‹JdbcTemplateâ€‹, â€‹@Transactionalâ€‹). Experience using Java, Git, and a build tool (Maven or Gradle).

Upon completion of this course, participants will understand how SpringBoot enhances the following:

Describe the benefits provided by Spring Boot
Initialize a project using Spring Boot Starters
Leverage Spring Boot's auto configuration features to enableJDBC setup and initialization
Create simplified backing-store solutions using Spring Data and JPA
Build a simple MVC application using Spring Boot, embedded WebServer 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 usingSpring Boot actuator
Leverage advance configuration capabilities
Utilize Spring Boot enhancements to testing

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 SpringInitializr web-site

Spring Boot Dependencies, Auto-Configuration and Runtime

Dependency management using Spring Bootstarters
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 requestprocessing
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 andautomatic 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

Upcoming Trainings

Join our public courses in our United Kingdom facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

Classroom / Virtual Classroom

18 May 2024