Spring Boot Certification Training Course

Course Content

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 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

 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 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