Spring Boot Quick Start | Core Spring, Spring AOP, Spring Boot 2.0 and More (TT3322)

Session: Introduction to Spring

Lesson: The Spring Framework

• Understand the value of Spring
• Explore Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IoC)
• Introduce 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: Spring Boot 2

Lesson: Spring Boot Actuator

• Understand Spring Boot Actuators
• Work with predefined Actuator endpoints
• Enabling Actuator endpoints
• Securing the Actuator

Lesson: Developing in Spring Boot

• Introduce Spring Boot Devtools
• Enable the ConditionEvaluationReport
• Debugging Spring Boot applications

Lesson: Thymeleaf

• Provide a quick overview of Thymeleaf
• Introduce Thymeleaf templates
• Create and run a Spring Thymeleaf MVC application

Working in a hands-on learning environment, students will review configuration basics of the Spring framework. The course then moves into Spring Boot, providing in-depth content and experience working with Spring Boot to accomplish a variety of tasks. In addition to working through the Spring Actuator, students work extensively at testing and debugging Spring Boot applications.

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
• Become familiar with the conditionally loading of bean definitions and Application Contexts
• Understand how to leverage the power of Spring Boot
• Use Spring Boot to create and work with JPA repositories

This hands-on course focuses on ‘learning by doing’, combining expert lecture, practical demonstrations and group discussions with plenty of machine-based real-world programming labs and exercises. Student machines are required.

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.

Java Developers, Application Developers, Full Stack Developers, Technical Managers, Architects.