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
