Learning Spring with Spring Boot

Learn rapid web development at enterprise scale with Spring through the highly popular Spring Boot framework.

Introduction

• Learn rapid development with Spring Boot
• What you should know

1. Getting Started with Spring Boot

• Introduction to Spring
• Introduction to Spring Boot
• Create a project with Spring Initializr
• Examining a Spring Boot skeleton project
• Inversion of control
• Annotations everywhere

2. Data Access in Spring

• Welcome to Spring Data
• Embedded databases with Spring Boot
• Repositories with Spring Data
• Using a remote database
• Challange: Build an additional repository
• Solution: Build an additional repository

3. Service Tier

• Utilizing IoC
• Build a service abstraction
• Develop a service object with Spring

4. Web Pages with Spring

• Introduction to the controller
• Build your first controller
• Thymeleaf as a rendering engine
• Challenge: Create a web page
• Solution: Create a web page

5. Exposing RESTful Endpoints

• Understanding RestController
• Expose a service layer through REST
• Challenge: RESTful endpoints
• Solution: RESTful endpoints

6. Additional Topics

• Testing Spring Boot applications
• Spring Security
• Other projects

What's Next

• Next steps