Core Spring (STA_SPRINGC)

Core Spring Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

• • Administration and Course Materials
• • Course Structure and Agenda
• • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO SPRING & IOC

• • About Spring
• • Inversion of Control
• • The Spring IoC Container
• • Spring Beans
• • Configuring the container
• • Instantiating the container and obtaining beans

Session 2: ANNOTATION-BASED CONTAINER CONFIG. & DI

• • Classpath scanning and managed components
• • Stereotype annotations
• • Dependency Injection
• • Autowiring
• • Handling multiple candidate dependencies
• • Java configuration vs. annotations,and mixing

Session 3: MORE CONTAINER CONFIG.

• • Bean lifecycle and post processors
• • Acting on a bean's lifecycle events
• • Specifying the scope of a bean
• • Composing configurations
• • Grouping beans into profiles
• • Externalising properties
• • Environment abstraction
• • Spring Expression Language

Core Spring Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 4: AOP

• • About AOP and proxying
• • Constructing pointcut expressions
• • Advising the target object

Session 5: TESTING

• • Spring integration testing with JUnit
• • Loading and configuring the container
• • Setting the active profile(s) and property source(s)

Session 6: TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT

• • Spring's transaction abstraction
• • Configuring the data source and transaction manager
• • Transaction configuration,e.g. propagation and rollback rules
• • Declarative transaction management
• • Programmatic transaction management
• • Choosing between the approaches

Core Spring Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 7: ACCESSING DATA & JDBC

• • Exception translation
• • Implementing a DAO using JdbcTemplate
• • Using callbacks to handle results
• • Managing data access exceptions

Session 8: MINIMISING CONFIG. WITH SPRING BOOT

• • Spring Boot: what and why
• • Starter dependencies
• • Auto-configuration
• • Spring Boot annotations
• • Creating a simple Spring Boot application
• • Configuration properties
• • Executing code on startup using CommandLineRunner
• • Testing in Spring Boot

Session 9: DATA PERSISTENCE WITH SPRING DATA JPA

• • Creating a Spring JPA app with Spring Boot
• • ORM,JPA,and Hibernate
• • Entity mapping
• • Spring Data repositories
• • Persisting entities
• • Writing query methods
• • Transactionality
• • Testing a Spring JPA app including @DataJpaTest

Core Spring Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 10: WEB APPS WITH SPRING WEB MVC

• • Creating a Spring MVC app with Spring Boot
• • The request processing lifecycle
• • Building a controller
• • Handler method parameters
• • View templates
• • Testing a Spring MVC app including @WebMvcTest
• • Configuring a Spring MVC app for deployment

Session 11: REST APIS WITH SPRING WEB MVC

• • About REST APIs
• • @ResponseBody,message conversion,and @RestController
• • @RequestBody and validation
• • @ResponseStatus and exception handling
• • Testing a REST API including @WebMvcTest
• • Using RestTemplate to invoke REST services

Core Spring Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 5

Session 12: SECURING AN APP WITH SPRING SECURITY

• • The big picture
• • Architecture components
• • Configuring custom authentication
• • Configuring authorisation for access to endpoints
• • Configuring authorisation at the method level
• • Configuring Spring Security

Session 13: SPRING BOOT ACTUATOR

• • About the Actuator
• • Exposing endpoints
• • Writing custom endpoints
• • Dealing with metrics
• • Health indicators
• • Writing custom health indicators
• • Monitoring and management over HTTP & JMX