Introduction to Spring

• The Java configuration and the Spring container
• Annotations @Configuration, @Bean, @Import
• The notion of scope
• Launch a Spring app and get our beans

Spring configuration in Java: in more detail

• Outsourcing of properties, Property Sources
• The notion of Environment
• The notion of bean profile
• Spring Expression Language (SpEL)
• The operation of proxies by inheritance

The Spring configuration by annotations

• Injection and auto-discovery of components
• Java configuration or auto-discovery: when to use them?
• Annotations of the life cycle: @PostConstruct, @PreDestroy
• Annotations stereotypes, meta-annotations
• Factories (design pattern): FactoryBeans

Advanced: Spring Container Operation

• The life cycle of a Spring component
• Post-processors: BeanFactoryPostProcessor, BeanPostProcessor
• Proxies
• The typing of @Bean methods

Test a Spring application

• Spring and TDD (Test Driven Development)
• Quick presentation of JUnit 5
• Spring 5 integration tests with JUnit 5
• Application context caching and @DirtiesContext annotation
• Selection of profiles with @ActiveProfiles
• Easy implementation of data access tests with @SQL

Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)

• What are the issues resolved by the AOP?
• Difference between spring AOP and AspectJ
• Define aspects with @Around, @Before, @After

Data access and JDBC with Spring

• How Spring integrates with existing data access technologies
• The DataAccessException exception hierarchy
• Caching with @Cacheable
• Facilitate testing with embedded databases Spring's JdbcTemplate

Transaction management with Spring

• The concept of transaction
• Implementation of transactions with Spring
• Insulation levels; strategies for spreading and backtracking transactions
• Transactions in integration tests

JPA with Spring and Spring Data

• Quick introduction to ORM with JPA
• Use JPA with Spring: the benefits
• The implementation of JPA with Spring

Spring Boot

• Minimize configuration with Spring Boot
• Simplify dependency management with starter POMs
• Redefine the default configurations of Spring Boot in a simple way

Spring JPA - Advanced

• Configure Spring JPA with Spring Boot
• Spring Data JPA: the automatic implementation of data access (dynamic repositories)

Spring in a web application

• Configure Spring in a web application
• Introduction to Spring MVC and Necessary Components
• Signing methods on controllers
• Views: Views and ViewResolvers
• Annotations @Controller, @RequestMapping
• Spring MVC configuration with Spring Boot
• Creation of a deliverable with Spring Boot: JAR or WAR?

Spring Boot - Advanced (Optional)

• Go beyond the default setting
• Fine customization of Spring Boot configuration
• Setting the log system
• Properties in YAML format
• Spring Boot Tests

Spring Security

• What are the issues resolved by Spring Security?
• Configure authentication and intercept URLs
• Spring Security server side support
• Security at the method level
• Understand the Spring Security filter chain

REST with Spring MVC

• Introduction to REST architecture
• Control HTTP return codes with @ResponseStatus
• Implement REST with Spring MVC and annotations @RequestBody, @ResponseBody
• Automatic content negotiation and HTTP message converters (HttpMessageConverter)

Introduction - Microservices with Spring Cloud (Optional)

• The benefits of a microservice oriented architecture
• New challenges of cloud applications
• Use Spring Cloud
• Develop a simple system with microservices

Introduction - Reactive applications with Spring (Optional)

• The concepts of reactive programming
• Reactive programming support with Spring
• Implement Spring's Reactive WebClient