Spring Framework with JPA, SpringBoot & SpringCloud

Introduction to the Spring Framework

• Goal of the Spring Framework
• Loose abstract coupling
• Relevant design patterns

 The Inversion of Control (IoC) container

• IoC and Dependency Injection
• Create bean definitions
• Constructor injection
• Setter injection
• Factory-method injection
• ApplicationContext

Lifecycle of a bean

• Lifecycle phases of a bean
• Lifecycle callback methods
• Post-processors

Spring Annotations

• Dependency injections
• Auto-wiring
• Lifecycle events
• Configuration

Introduction to Spring AOP

• Basics of Aspect Oriented Programming
• Pointcuts and advices
• Spring AOP / AspectJ

 Basic Data access with Spring

• Spring's resource management
• Spring's JDBC support for data access
• Spring Data

Spring Data - JPA / Hibernate & NoSQL

• Introduction to JPA / Hibernate
• O/R Mapping – the need
• Main features
• Architecture
• Configurations
• Entity beans
• Entity manager
• EntityManagerFactory
• Spring support JPA / Hibernate & NoSQL
• Spring JPA Repositories
• NoSQL with Spring Data
• Spring NoSQL Repositories
• Custom querying with Repositories

Spring Messaging

• Understanding messaging
• Topics and queues
• Introduction to Kafka
  • Installing
  • Architecture
  • Consumer types
  • Spring support for Kafka
• Introduction RabbitMQ
  • Installing
  • Architecture
  • Spring support for RabbitMQ
• Defining topics
• Creating producers
• Cresting consumers

Spring testing

• Junit – brief
• Mocking – introduction
• SpringBoot test platform
• Understanding testing application context
• Tier oriented testing
• Unit tests
  • Simple - flat
  • With mocking
  • Repositories with embedded in-memory alternative DB
  • Repositories & DAOs with real DB
  • MVC controller endpoints, with mocked Web Container
  • MVC controller logic
  • MVC content types – JSONs
• Integration tests

Introduction to Spring MVC

• Introduction to Java Web Model
• Core concepts of Spring MVC
• MVC annotations
• MVC additional scopes
• Create Spring MVC controllers
• Define Spring MVC web services
• RESTful Web Service development
• RestTemplate for REST clients

SpringBoot

• Introduction
• start.spring.io & extensions
• Installation
• Configuring POM
• Setting class dependencies
• Coding & @EnableAutoConfiguration
• Deploying code
• Creating executable jar
• Create Spring MVC controllers

SpringCloud

• Microservices
  • Introduction
  • Benefits and drawbacks
  • Challenges
  • Best practices
  • Main Patterns
• Understanding CloudContext
• Configuration server - Eureka
• Service discovery - Eureka
• API gateway - Zuul
• Circuit breaker (load-balancing) - Hystrix
• Monitoring – Hystrix
• Load-balancing – Spring Ribbon
• Feign clients