Course

Course Overview

Core Spring is Pivotal’s official four-day flagship Spring Framework training. In this course, participants build a Spring-powered Java application that demonstrates the Spring Framework and other Spring technologies like Spring AOP and Spring Security in an intensely productive, hands-on setting.

Completion of this training prepares participants to take a certification exam and become a Pivotal certified Spring Professional.

Course Objectives

At the end of the training, you should have an understanding of Spring and associated technologies and be able to do the following:

• Use the Spring Framework to develop Java applications.
• Use dependency injection to set up and configure applications.
• Test Spring-based applications.
• Configure Spring applications using Java configuration, annotations, or XML.
• Use JPA/Hibernate and JDBC with Spring to access relational databases.
• Use Spring support for transactions.
• Use aspect-oriented programming (AOP) to declaratively add behavior to applications.
• Develop a basic Web application with Spring MVC.
• Use Spring Security to secure Web applications.
• Use Spring to easily build REST web services.
• Use Spring to easily work with messaging APIs such as JMS.
• Add management with the JMX API.

Course Modules

1 Introduction to Spring

• Spring Framework and Spring Ecosystem Overview
• Dependeny-Injection Concept
• ApplicationContext Abstraction and API
• History and Evolution of Spring

2Dependency Injection --- Spring Java Config

• Configuration Classes and Bean Factory Methods — @Configuration and @Bean annotations
• Environment abstraction, Property Externalization
• Bean Scopes — @Scope annotation
• Bean Profiles and Conditional Beans
• Spring Expression Language (SpEL)
• Role of Proxies in Spring

3Dependency Injection --- Annotation-Driven

• Components and Auto-wiring — @Component, @Autowired annotations
• Component Scan — @ComponentScan annotation
• Life-Cycle Callbacks — @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotations
• Stereotype Annotations — @Service, @Repository and other annotations

4Bean Life-cycle --- Looking Inside

• Phases in Bean Life-Cycle
• Bean Definitions and Post-Processing — BeanFactoryPostProcessor, BeanPostProcessor
• Running Phase — Proxy Power
• Application Context Cleanup and Destruction Phase

5Testing Spring Applications

• Spring and Test Driven Development
• Integration Testing with Spring and JUnit4 — @ContextConfiguration, @RunWith annotations
• Test Methods Setup—@DirtiesContext
• Bean Profiles in Testing
• Testing Transactional Code — @Sql annotation

6Aspect-Oriented Programming

• Understanding AOP
• Spring AOP — Defining Aspects
• Point-Cut Expressions
• Types of Advices — @Around, @Before, @After

7Data-Access with Spring & Spring JDBC

• Overview of Data-Access in Spring Projects
• Caching Module — @Cacheable annotation
• Spring Data Repositories
• JdbcTemplate API

8Spring Transaction Management

• Transactional Systems Review
• Declarative Transaction Management — @Transactional annotation, and XML configuration
• Isolation levels, transaction propagation and rollback rules
• Transactions and Integration Testing

9Spring Boot

• Auto-Configuration with Spring Boot
• Simplified dependency management
• Overriding Boot default settings
• Packaging options, and embedded containers
• Configuration properties using YAML
• Boot-driven testing

10JPA with Spring and Spring Data

• Introduction to JPA/ORM
• JPA configuration in Spring
• Implementing JPA Data-Access
• Spring Data JPA dynamic repositories

11Spring Web Development

• Spring configuring in a Web Apps
• Introduction to Spring MVC
• Writing Controllers — @Controller, @RequestMapping
• Controller method signatures
• Views and ViewResolvers

12REST-WS with Spring

• REST-WS Overview
• Implementing REST with Spring MVC
• Rest Controllers
• Content Negotiation

13Spring Security

• Spring Security Overview
• Configuring authentication and intercepting URLs
• Spring Security JSP tag library
• Method-Level Security
• The Spring Security filter chain

13Spring Boot Actuators

• Monitoring with Boot Actuators
• Metrics
• Health Check

14OAuth2 with Spring Boot (Bonus)

• OAuth2 Overview and Workflows
• Setting-up a Authentication Server
• Setting-up a Resource Server
• Accessing secure endpoints in Client App

15Micro-Services with Spring Cloud (Bonus)

• Microservice Architectures
• Cloud Native Apps
• Quick Intro to Spring Cloud