Spring Framework 5 Training Course

Who should attend

Any Java developer who wants to be able to exploit the wide-ranging capabilities of the Spring Framework.

Prerequisites

Delegates should be comfortable with Java language, syntax and object-oriented application development principles. Ideally familiarity with Java 8+.

On-site

If you would like to discuss custom / on-site Spring Framework training for any size of team, please get in touch – we would be glad to help build a course that meets your learning requirements.

We can take into account your existing technical skills, project requirements and timeframes, and specific topics of interest to tailor the most relevant and focussed course for you.

This can be particularly useful if you need to learn just the new features and Best Practices with Spring, or need to include extra topics to help with pre-requisite skills. While the standard course focuses on Spring 4, we are happy to support previous versions if you have an existing Spring application which you need to support – please let us know.

Spring 5.0 Introduction

• Motivation behind Spring
• What is Spring
• The Spring Framework
• The Spring Core
• Where you can use Spring
• Why use Spring
• Why not use Spring

Spring Beans

• Spring Beans
• Spring Container
• A Simple Spring Application
• Spring Context config files
• Spring test Application
• What happens in a Spring application?

Spring Configuration

• Bean configurations
• Bean Scoping
• Spring Annotations
• Java Config approach
• Lambda approach
• Mixing XML and annotations

Dependency Injection

• Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection
• Spring Dependency Injection
• Wiring Beans together using XML
• Wiring Beans together using Annotations
• Wiring Beans together using a mixture of XML and Annotations

Further Configuration and Bean Lifecycle

• Wiring Collections
• Auto-wiring in XML files
• Compound Names
• Look at Bean Lifecycle
• Explore interface and annotations
• Understand PostProcessors
• POJO init and destroy methods
• Lifecycle interfaces

SpEL and Validation

• Introduce SpEL
• How SpEL is used
• Some examples
• Spring Validation
• Enabled validation
• Constraints available

Externalizing Properties

• Introduce Property values
• Property files
• Properties Resolver
• XML configuration
• Java Config configuration
• Use of @Value

Spring Environment and Profiles

• Introduce need for Environments
• Spring Environments
• Spring Profiles
• Defined in XML and Java Config
• Setting the active Profile
• Multiple active Profiles
• Default Profile

Bean Factories

• Factory Classes
• Static Factory classes
• Non-Static Factory objects
• Annotated Factory classes

Spring Test

• Introduce Testing with Spring
• Highlight Test Support in Spring
• Support for both JUnit 4.x and JUnit 5.x
• JUnit 4.x
• Spring and JUnit 4.x
• JUnit 5.x
• Spring and JUnit 5.x

Spring JMS

• Basic idea of message queues
• point-to-point
• publish and subscribe (pub-sub)
• ActiveMQ message server
• JMS (Java Message Service)
• Spring JMS Development
• Spring POJO bean as a message consumer

Spring Remoting

• What is Remoting
• Spring Remoting Technologies
• General Model
• Publishing remote bean
• Accessing bean from remote client

Spring Data

• Data Access objects
• Spring DAO
• Spring and JDBC
• Spring DAO Exception Hierarchy
• Spring Template
• Spring DAO Templates
• DAO Architecture
• Using Spring JDBC Templates
• Using Object Mappers

Spring AOP

• Motivation for Aspect Oriented Programming
• AOP in general
• How AOP can be achieved
• Spring AOP
• AOP Terminology
• Building in AOP interceptors
• Creating your own Aspect
• Applying a custom aspect in an application
• Challenges of AOP

Spring Transaction Management

• Spring Transaction management
• Declarative Transaction Management
• Transaction Managers
• Transaction Propagation
• Isolation levels
• Transaction Management
• Spring configuration
• Programmatically controlling a Transaction

Spring Web MVC

• Introduce Spring Web MVC
• Present flow through MVC
• Creating a simple Web MVC application
• Defining a Controller
• Handling view resolution
• Building and Deploying
• Java Config web applications
• WebAppInitializer class
• Spring Java Config class

Spring Rest

• Web Services
• What is REST
• Spring REST
• Building a Spring REST application

Spring Rest Client

• Introduce Spring REST Clients
• Spring REST Template
• REST client with XML and Java Config

Spring Boot

• Spring Boot Library
• Motivation
• Key Features inc Auto-configuration, Standalone, Opinionated
• Maven configuration