Core Spring

Course Code: SPRINGC

Duration: 4 days

 
 
 
 

Core Spring Course Overview

Spring is the leading Java framework for building enterprise software.

This course comprises sessions dealing with Inversion of Control (IoC), Dependency Injection (DI), Container configuration, Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP), testing, transaction management, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Web MVC, REST APIs, Spring Security, and the Actuator.

It is delivered using Spring v6 and Spring Boot v3 (Java v17) though the vast majority of the content is applicable to earlier versions and the trainer will point out the differences.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

This course aims to provide the delegate with the knowledge to be able to develop (or contribute to the development of) secure Spring web applications/REST APIs that read from and write to persistent storage.

Who will the Course Benefit?

The Core Spring course will benefit Java developers who are new to Spring and want to develop/contribute large and complex enterprise-level applications.

Skills Gained

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

  • Spring-ify an application and have the container instantiate components
  • Provide the necessary metadata to have the container inject dependencies automatically
  • Configure the container with regards bean lifecycle and scope, profiles, and properties
  • Describe AOP and its role in a Spring application
  • Write integration tests for a Spring application's components
  • Exploit Spring's transaction abstraction
  • Exploit auto-configuration with Spring Boot
  • Manage the persistence of entity objects using Spring Data JPA
  • Build a traditional web application using Spring Web MVC
  • Build a REST API using Spring Web MVC
  • Secure a web application with Spring Security
  • Monitor and monitor a Spring web application/REST API with the Spring Boot Actuator

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Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO SPRING & IOC

  • About Spring
  • Inversion of Control
  • The Spring IoC Container
  • Spring Beans
  • Configuring the container
  • Instantiating the container and obtaining beans

Session 2: ANNOTATION-BASED CONTAINER CONFIG. & DI

  • Classpath scanning and managed components
  • Dependency Injection
  • Autowiring
  • Handling multiple candidate dependencies
  • Java configuration vs. annotations, and mixing

Session 3: MORE CONTAINER CONFIG.

  • Acting on a bean's lifecycle events
  • Specifying the scope of a bean
  • Composing configurations
  • Grouping beans into profiles
  • Externalising properties
  • Environment abstraction
  • Spring Expression Language

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Session 4: AOP

  • About AOP and proxying
  • Constructing pointcut expressions
  • Advising the target object

Session 5: TESTING

  • Spring integration testing with JUnit
  • Loading and configuring the container
  • Setting the active profile(s) and property source(s)
  • Handling a dirty context

Session 6: TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT

  • Spring's transaction abstraction
  • Configuring the data source and transaction manager
  • Declarative transaction management
  • Programmatic transaction management
  • Choosing between the approaches

Session 7: ACCESSING DATA & JDBC

  • Exception translation
  • Annotating DAOs with @Repository
  • Implementing a DAO using JdbcTemplate

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Session 8: MINIMISING CONFIG. WITH SPRING BOOT

  • Spring Boot: what and why
  • Starter dependencies
  • Auto-configuration
  • Spring Boot annotations
  • Creating a simple Spring Boot application
  • Configuration properties
  • Executing code on startup using CommandLineRunner

Session 9: DATA PERSISTENCE WITH SPRING DATA JPA

  • ORM, JPA, and Hibernate
  • Entity mapping
  • Spring Data repositories
  • Persisting entities
  • Writing query methods
  • Transactionality
  • Configuring Spring Data JPA

Session 10: WEB APPS WITH SPRING WEB MVC

  • The DispatcherServlet
  • Request processing
  • Building a controller
  • Handler method parameters
  • Configuring Spring Web MVC

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Session 11: REST APIS WITH SPRING WEB MVC

  • About REST APIs
  • Enabling and modifying the MVC Configuration
  • @ResponseBody, message conversion, and @RestController
  • Content negotiation
  • @RequestBody and validation
  • @ResponseStatus and exception handling

Session 12: SECURING AN APP WITH SPRING SECURITY

  • The big picture
  • Architecture components
  • Configuring custom authentication
  • Configuring authorisation for access to endpoints
  • Configuring authorisation at the method level
  • Configuring Spring Security

Session 13: SPRING BOOT ACTUATOR

  • About the Actuator
  • Exposing endpoints
  • Writing custom endpoints
  • Dealing with metrics
  • Health indicators
  • Writing custom health indicators
  • Monitoring and management over HTTP & JMX
Notes:
  • Course technical content is subject to change without notice.
  • Course content is structured as sessions, this does not strictly map to course timings. Concepts, content and practicals often span sessions.

Requirements

Delegates attending this course should be competent Java developers who have a good understanding of OO principles and are able to build simple applications that exploit APIs including Collections, IO, and JDBC. Delegates would also benefit from having some previous experience with Servlet programming. This knowledge can be obtained by attendance on the pre-requisite Java Programming 1 / Java Developer course.

Pre-Requisite Courses

Course Reviews

- July 2023

As always Stuart presentation and training is very enjoyable and his experience always impresses. The quiz's that are made are very good an informative which I enjoy and the program approach which I prefer other than going through slide by slide.

James - Software Engineer - Government - July 2023

Fantastic course. Expertly delivered. Stuart was extremely knowledgeable and brilliant as a course instructor. Looking forward to the next course I attend. Learnt a great deal from this one.

Lee - Senior Software Engineer - Government - June 2023

Stuart was an excellent lecturer, very knowledgeable and engaging. He clearly has a wealth of knowledge and experience and is very open to questions and engagement. Having previously used Spring before it was incredibly valuable to have a deeper dive especially with a coordinator who knows his stuff. Thank you very much Stuart 5/5.

Liam - Software Engineer (MSc programme) - Government - June 2023

Stuart is a very good trainer. He gives good examples, provides excellent notes, layouts out the plans and explains clearly. I feel that I've gained what I came to do from the course. Able to work with Spring before this, I now understand Spring with additional knowledge on top. Thanks.

Hywel - Software developer - Government - March 2023

Had a fantastic time on this course. Stuart was very clear in all of his explanations and demonstrations, working at a pace that allowed everyone to keep up. Really good to have so much context and real world examples. It was also great to have a complete application to take away for reference moving forwards.

Rachael - HEO Software Engineer - Government - March 2023

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