Spring Boot Fundamentals

The Spring Boot Fundamentals course provides a comprehensive, developer’s eye understanding of the Spring and Spring Boot ecosystem. It covers everything from basic Spring concepts, to advanced Spring Boot configuration, to creating and consuming REST applications connected to databases.

It addresses testing at various degrees of resolution, and looks at framework support for monitoring Spring Boot applications. Along the way it explores various tricks and techniques to use Spring Boot effectively.

Curriculum:

• Introduction to Spring
• Capabilities of the modern Spring ecosystem
• Spring v. Spring Boot
• Factory Pattern
• Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control
• The Application Context and Spring Beans
• Xml and Java Configuration
• Dependency Injection Techniques
• Profiles
• Testing concepts for Spring and Dependency Injection
• Spring Boot
• Advantage of using Spring Boot for Spring Applications
• start.spring.io
• application.properties and application.yaml
• Logging – Logback/Log4j
• Externalize Configuration – @ConfigurationProperties
• Testing with Spring Boot
• REST Services
• What is REST?
• Controllers and RestControllers
• Configuration
• Content Negotiation
• Controller Mappings
• Customizing Controller Responses
• Testing Rest Services
• Consuming REST Services
• RestTemplate
• HttpClient (Java 11+)
• Spring Data
• Overview of JDBC and JPA/Hibernate
• Spring Boot and databases
• DataSource configuration
• Initializing Databases for testing
• Spring Data Repositories
• Testing Spring Data
• Spring Boot Actuators
• Exploring available Endpoints 
• Configuring Endpoint availability 
• Securing Endpoints 
• Creating custom Endpoints
• Introduction to Reactive Programming
• Why Reactive 
• Reactive Interfaces – Publisher, Subscriber, Subscription, Processor
• Project Reactor Interfaces – Flux, Mono 
• Reactive REST services – WebFlux, WebClient