Spring Boot 3 and Spring 6

Spring Boot

• What is Spring Boot?
• Creating a Project with Spring Boot Initializr.
• Develop a REST API Controller with Spring Boot
• Explore the Spring Boot Project Structure
• Leverage Spring Boot Starters - A Curated List of Dependencies
• Inherit Defaults with Spring Boot Starter Parents
• Automatically Restart with Spring Boot Dev Tools
• Add DevOps functionality with Spring Boot Actuator Endpoints
• Secure Spring Boot Actuator Endpoints
• Run Spring Boot apps from the Command-Line
• Use the Spring Boot Maven Plugin to package and run Spring Boot apps.
• Inject custom application properties into a Spring Boot REST Controller
• Simplify your build process with Maven.
• Create Maven POM files and add dependencies.
• Run Maven builds from the IDE.
• Use Maven during the development of Real-Time Projects for Spring Boot MVC, Spring Boot Security, Spring Boot REST API and Hibernate/JPA

Spring Core

• Build a complete Spring MVC and Hibernate/JPA CRUD Project ... all from scratch.
• Set up your Spring Boot and Hibernate/JPA
• Wire beans together in the Spring container using Inversion of Control
• Configure the Spring container for Dependency Injection
• Define Spring Beans using the Component annotation.
• Perform auto-scanning of Spring beans to minimize configuration.
• Define Spring Beans using the Component annotation.
• Apply all Java configuration to Spring Beans (no xml).

Spring Security

• Secure your REST APIs and web applications with Spring Boot Security
• Set up your Maven pom.xml file with Spring Boot Security starter.
• Configure Spring Boot Security with all Java configuration (no xml)
• Create custom Spring Boot Security login pages with Bootstrap CSS
• Add logout support using default features of Spring Boot Security
• Leverage Spring Boot Security support for Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
• Define users and roles for authentication
• Display user login info and role using Spring Boot Security tags.
• Restrict access to URLs based on user role.
• Hide and Display content based on user role.
• Add JDBC authentication, store user accounts and passwords in the database.
• Store encrypted passwords in the database using bcrypt.
• Register new users and encrypt passwords using Java code.
• Create a Spring Security Real-Time Project using authorization, authentication and database encryption.

Spring REST APIs

• Overview of REST APIs
• Investigating Spring Boot REST support
• Sending JSON data over HTTP
• JSON Data Binding with the Jackson project
• Converting JSON data to Java POJO with Jackson
• Developing a Spring Boot REST API
• Setting up a Spring Boot REST project with Maven
• Creating the Spring Boot REST Controller using RestController.
• Running the Spring Boot REST Controller with the IDE
• Testing Spring Boot REST Web Services with Postman
• Parameterize Spring Boot REST API endpoints using PathVariable.
• Add Spring Boot REST exception handling with ExceptionHandler.
• Integrate global Spring Boot REST exception handling with ControllerAdvice.
• Leverage ResponseEntity for fine-grained control of Spring Boot REST HTTP response.
• Build Spring Boot REST API to execute CRUD actions on the Database with Hibernate/JPA.
• Create a Real-Time Project using Spring Boot REST API with full database CRUD.

Spring REST API CRUD

• Develop a REST API Controller with Spring Boot with full CRUD supports.
• Configure Spring Boot Data Source for MySQL Database
• Create DAO implementations using JPA Entity Manager
• Apply Best Practices by integrating a Service Layer
• Expose REST API endpoints in Controller code (GET, POST, PUT and DELETE)
• Access the REST API using Postman.

Spring Boot and Spring Data JPA

• Minimize boilerplate code with Spring Data JPA and the JpaRepository.
• Refactor existing REST API to integrate with Spring Data JPA
• Leverage new features of the Java Optional pattern with JpaRepository.
• Test the Spring Data JPA repository with Postman.

Spring Boot and Spring Data REST

• Accelerate your development process with Spring Data REST
• Leverage Spring Data REST to eliminate custom code for controllers and service.
• Automatically expose REST endpoints for your JPA Repositories
• Customize REST base path endpoints.
• Apply pagination and sorting to REST API endpoints.
• Configure default page sizes for REST APIs
• Investigate HATEOAS compliant REST responses.
• Test Spring Data REST with Postman

Spring MVC

• Set up your Spring Boot MVC environment with configs and directories.
• Create controllers using Controller annotation.
• Read HTML form data using RequestParam.
• Leverage Spring Boot MVC model to transport data between controller and view page.
• Define Request Mappings for GET and POST requests.
• Minimize coding with Spring Boot MVC Form data binding.
• Leverage Thymeleaf expressions to access data from the Spring Boot MVC Model
• Apply CSS stylesheets to your Thymeleaf templates.

Spring MVC Validation

• Create a Spring MVC Validation project using the Spring Initializr website.
• Apply validation rules for required fields, number ranges and regular expressions.
• Leverage the InitBinder and StringTrimmerEditor to trim white spaces.
• Configure error messages using the messages properties file.
• Develop a custom validation rule using annotation.

Spring Boot and Thymeleaf

• Develop view templates with Thymeleaf in Spring Boot projects.
• Examine the auto-configuration of Thymeleaf in Spring Boot projects.
• Create a Spring Boot project with Thymeleaf using the Spring Initializer website.
• Develop a Spring Boot MVC Controller and a Thymeleaf template.

Spring Boot, Thymeleaf and Database CRUD

• Develop a real-time project with Thymeleaf and Spring Boot with full database CRUD support.
• Integrate the Repository to execute CRUD actions on the Database with Spring #### Data JPA
• Apply best practices with the Service layer design pattern.
• Create a Controller to handle web browser requests.
• Develop Thymeleaf templates to render database results.
• Beautify your Thymeleaf templates with Bootstrap CSS.

AOP: Aspect Oriented Programming

• Set up a Spring Boot project for AOP.
• Apply AOP concepts: Aspects, advices and pointcut expressions.
• Add logging messages using the Before advice.
• Define pointcut expressions to match on parameters, return types and packages.
• Create reusable pointcut expressions.
• Combine pointcut expressions using logical operators.
• Control the execution order of aspects using Order.
• Access method execution metadata using JoinPoints.
• Leverage JoinPoints to read method arguments.
• Apply an AfterReturning advice to post-process the data.
• Integrate AfterThrowing advice to access exceptions.
• Develop an AOP Advice using Around to pre-process and post-process method calls
• Integrate AOP into a Spring MVC CRUD app.