Spring Boot 2.0 Essential Training

Get started with Spring Boot 2.x—the popular Spring microframework—and learn how to build Java-based web applications quickly, using less code.

Introduction

• Spring into Spring
• What you should know

1. Spring Boot Basics

• Booting from the web
• Understanding the project
• Understanding auto-configuration
• Configuration in Spring Boot
• Spring Profiles in Boot
• Building Spring Boot applications
• Containerizing Spring Boot applications

2. Spring Boot Web

• Understanding Spring Boot dependencies
• Configuring embedded Tomcat
• Employing MVC in Spring Boot
• Thymeleaf templates
• Web application with Spring Boot
• Challenge: Generate an MVC webpage
• Solution: Generate an MVC webpage
• Web services with Spring Boot
• Challenge: Build a web service
• Solution: Build a web service

3. Spring Boot Command Line

• CommandLineRunner interface
• Building a command-line application
• Challenge: Build a CommandLineRunner
• Solution: Build a CommandLineRunner

4. Spring Boot Data

• The Repository pattern
• Introduction to Spring Data
• Building embedded databases
• Building a Spring Data repository
• Connecting to external databases
• Challenge: Build a data repository
• Solution: Build a data repository

5. Spring Boot Extra Topics

• Introduction to Spring Security
• Using Spring Security
• Introduction to messaging
• Spring message consumers
• Building Spring message producers
• Building Spring REST repositories
• Using Spring Actuator
• Extending Actuator
• Building Spring Boot starters