Introduction to Spring 5.x | Spring Quick Start (TT3320) Training in Nigeria

Who Should Attend?

This introduction to Spring development course requires that incoming students possess solid Java 8 or later programming skills and practical hands-on Java experience. This class is geared for experienced Java developers who are new to Spring, who wish to understand how and when to use Spring in Java and JEE applications.

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 course. The course then moves into the areas of persistence and transactions, looking at various options.

Our engaging instructors and mentors are highly experienced practitioners who bring years of current "on-the-job" application development and Spring experience into every classroom. Working in a hands-on learning environment, led by our expert practitioner, students will:

• 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 JDBC.
• 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
• Explain Spring's support for transactions and caching
• Work with Spring Boot to facilitate Spring setup and configuration
• Apply Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) to Spring applications

Session: Introduction to Spring

Lesson: The Spring Framework

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

Lesson: 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

Lesson: 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

Lesson: Introduction to Spring Boot

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

Lesson: 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

Lesson: Introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming

• Aspect Oriented Programming
• Cross Cutting Concerns

Lesson: Spring AOP

• Spring AOP in a Nutshell
• @AspectJ support
• Spring AOP advice types
• AspectJ pointcut designators

Session: Persistence in Spring

Lesson: Transaction Management in Spring

• Understand Transaction Demarcation within Spring
• Configure the PlatformTransactionmanager
• The @Transactional annotation

Lesson: Spring JDBC

• JdbcDaoSupport - JDBC DAO Implementation
• The jdbcTemplate
• Exception Handling
• Operation Classes