The Complete Guide to Spring 5 and Spring Boot 2

This Spring Boot guide covers the basics and advanced topics, such as dependency injection, Spring Boot, REST services, MVC, AOP, and unit testing.

Beginner

144 Lessons

13h 30min

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This Spring Boot guide covers the basics and advanced topics, such as dependency injection, Spring Boot, REST services, MVC, AOP, and unit testing.

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Course Overview

Expertise in the Spring framework is highly sought after and will help open up a lot of job opportunities for you. Here you will get familiar with Spring 5 and Spring Boot 2 to add dependency injection into your applications. You will start with the basics of Spring like dependency injection, auto-wiring, and constructor injection. After the basics are out of the way you’ll move onto Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring JDBC, and Spring Data JPA. Lastly, you’ll delve into Spring’s support for AOP, unit testing...Show More

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Java

Back End Development

Spring

Spring Boot

What You'll Learn

Understand the basic concepts of the Spring Framework

Learn how to use Spring Boot to kickstart the development process

Interact with databases using Spring's support for JDBC and JPA

Learn the Spring MVC architecture

Use AOP for implementing cross-cutting concerns in Spring

Implement unit testing in the Spring framework

What You'll Learn

Understand the basic concepts of the Spring Framework

Course Content

Introduction

The chapter introduces Spring, a Java framework for dependency injection, covering its history, architecture, and factors of sustained popularity.

What is Spring?History

Terminology Spring Architecture Reasons for Sustained Popularity

Spring Basics

The chapter explores key principles of Spring development, focusing on project setup, dependency management, and effective use of annotations for bean management.

Creating a Project Dependency Decoupling Components Managing Beans and Dependencies Autowiring By Type — @Primary Autowiring By Name Autowiring — @Qualifier Constructor and Setter Injection Quiz: Spring Basics

Spring In-depth

The chapter explores bean scope, lifecycle management, dependency injection, and configuration methods in Spring, emphasizing best practices for robust application development.

Bean Scope Mixing Bean Scope @ComponentScan Bean Lifecycle: @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy Bean Lifecycle: Prototype Scoped Beans Contexts and Dependency Injection Framework Spring Application Configuration XML Application Configuration XML Configuration with Java Annotations Stereotype Annotations Using an External Property File Quiz: Spring In-depth Challenge: Spring In-depth

Spring Boot

The chapter explains how Spring Boot simplifies development with features like auto-configuration, REST service creation, developer tools, and monitoring.

What is Spring Boot?Creating a REST Service Developer Tools Actuator Comparing Spring Boot and Spring MVC Quiz: Spring Boot

Spring JDBC

The chapter focuses on Spring JDBC, highlighting simplified database interactions through JdbcTemplate and methods for executing various SQL operations like SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE.

Creating a JDBC Starter Project Setting up the H2 Database SELECT Query INSERT Query UPDATE Query DELETE Query DDL Queries Custom RowMapper Quiz: Spring JDBC

Spring Data JPA

9 Lessons

The chapter focuses on utilizing Spring Data JPA for efficient database interactions, covering JPA concepts, entity management, repositories, CRUD operations, and integration with various databases.

Spring REST Fundamentals

8 Lessons

The chapter explores developing RESTful services using Spring, JSON data binding, testing with Postman, and implementing robust API designs.

Spring REST Advanced Operations and Error Management

9 Lessons

The chapter delves into advanced REST operations in Spring, including endpoint creation, error handling, and automated repository management.

Database Relationships in Spring

9 Lessons

The chapter explores various database relationships in Spring, including one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many, highlighting implementation techniques and integrity management.

10.

Spring Aspect Orientated Programming (AOP)

10 Lessons

The chapter explains AOP, covering techniques to intercept method calls and perform tasks later, e.g., defining aspects and storing pointcut expressions, etc.

11.

Configuring a Basic Enterprise Web Application

8 Lessons

The chapter outlines the essential steps for configuring a basic enterprise web application using Spring Boot and JSP, emphasizing servlet creation and request handling.

12.

Spring MVC Fundamentals

12 Lessons

The chapter introduces MVC architecture, discussing its components and configuration. It explains how to create classes and views and access or bind form data.

13.

Spring MVC Advanced Concepts

12 Lessons

The chapter covers advanced concepts in Spring MVC, focusing on form handling, validation techniques, custom annotations, and Servlet configuration.

14.

Unit Testing in Spring

13 Lessons

The chapter explains unit testing, covering essential practices and tools like JUnit and Mockito and the importance of separating test and production code.

15.

Interview Questions

11 Lessons

The chapter lists common interview questions on Spring 5 and Spring Boot 2 fundamentals, dependency injection, annotations, configuration, data access, AOP, and

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Epilogue

1 Lesson

The chapter provides a quick rundown of the complete course and acknowledges contributors.

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