Spring Core and Spring Boot

Spring Core: Understanding the basic lightweight container

• Concept of light container of objects
• Beans, BeanFactory and ApplicationContext
• XML ​​configurations and Spring Annotations
• Dependency resolution and injection techniques
• Life cycle of a Spring Bean
• Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP): Concepts and Vocabulary
• Spring AOP functionalities: Proxies, PointCuts, Advices, …

Spring Boot: Accelerating the development of applications

• Introduction to Spring Boot: Added value, principles
• Process of creating a Spring Boot Creation application with Initializr
• Spring Boot starters
• Structure of a Boot application
• Configuration of an application
• Spring Boot support in STS and in Intellij IDEA

Spring Data: Access to relational databases

• Introduction to ORMs and to JPA specification
• JPA annotations and configurations
• The « Repository » design pattern and CRUD abstractions
• Spring Data JPA: CrudRepository and JpaRepository abstractions
• The query: JPQL, Query methods, Query DSL
• Transaction management: Isolation, Propagation and Rollback rules

Spring Security: The security module

• Presentation of the Spring Security
• Authentication configuration: UserDetails and Authority Abstractions
• Configuration of authorization rules
• Understand the authorization principle based on claims
• Secure the invocation of object methods
• Implement the JWT standard for Stateless token-based authentication

Spring Test: Unit and integration tests

• Spring support overview for « Test Driven Development »
• Unit tests with JUnit 4/5. The Arrange-Act-Assert pattern
• Mocking dependencies with Mockito.
• Unit tests of web components with @WebMvcTest
• Integration tests: objectives and implementation
• Integration tests with @SpringBootTest and @DataJPATest

Spring Web: Developing web applications and REST resources

• Model-view-controller pattern in Spring MVC
• The DispatcherServlet. MVC controllers.
• Thymeleaf view engine
• Development of REST controllers with Spring MVC
• Data validation. Exception handling
• REST Development best practices
• REST clients with the RestTemplate

Actuator : Application monitoring

• Actuator Overview and Capabilities
• Actuator Endpoints
• Spring Boot Actuator health
• Spring Boot Actuator metrics
• Implementing Custom Actuators
• Implementing Custom Health Checks