Creating Your First Spring Boot Microservice

Spring-load your Java development. Learn how to use Spring Boot and Spring Data to deliver back-end microservices to consumers of RESTful APIs.

Introduction

• Build a microservice with Spring Boot
• Using the exercise files

1. Create a Spring Boot Microservice

• Introduction to Spring Initialzr
• Project setup
• Build, deploy, and launch the microservice

2. Leverage Spring Data JPA Repository Interfaces

• The domain model
• The JPA entities
• Declare Spring Data JPA repository interfaces
• Spring Data JPA repository dependency injection
• Invoking the Spring Data JPA repositories
• Introduction to Spring Data query methods

3. Expose RESTful APIs with Spring Data REST

• What is a hypermedia-driven RESTful API?
• Creating APIs with Spring Data REST
• Explore the /search resource
• Paging and sorting
• Controlling API exposure
• HAL Browser

4. Expose RESTful APIs with Spring MVC

• Choosing the right framework
• Declaring a new RestController
• Create RestController HTTP POST method
• Create RestController HTTP GET methods
• Create RestController HTTP PUT, PATCH, and DELETE methods
• Paging and sorting DTOs

5. Pivot to a MongoDB NoSQL Data Source

• Introduction to MongoDB
• Spring Data MongoDB documents
• Spring Data MongoDB repositories
• Spring Data MongoDB microservice

Conclusion

• Next steps