Spring Boot/Cloud

Target Audience: Developers with a basic understanding of Java and web development concepts.

Course Length: 4 days

Course Objectives:

• Gain a solid understanding of Spring MVC fundamentals and architecture.

• Master Spring Boot's features for rapid application development.

• Build web applications with Spring Boot, including data access and RESTful services.

• Implement security measures in Spring Boot applications using Spring Security.

• Explore messaging services with Spring Boot and RabbitMQ.

• Understand microservices architecture and key concepts.

• Get introduced to Spring Cloud components for building microservices applications.

Course Schedule (4 Modules):

Module 1: Spring MVC Fundamentals

• Integrating Spring with Java EE Web Applications

• Spring Web MVC Overview, Capabilities, Architecture (Front Controller, MVC Pattern)

• Spring MVC Basics - DispatcherServlet

• Configuration using @EnableWebMvc

• Controllers - @Controller, @RequestMapping (Handler Methods)

• Controller Details - @RequestMapping, @RequestParam, @PathVariable

• Model Data - @ModelAttribute, Model/ModelAndView Classes

• Servlet Filters

• Spring Profiles (Environment Management)

Module 2: Getting Started with Spring Boot

• Spring Boot Starters, CLI, Maven Plugin

• Application class (@SpringBootApplication)

• Building a Runnable JAR

• Dependency Injection, Component Scans, Configuration

• Externalizing Configuration (application.properties/YAML)

• Context Root and Management Ports

• Custom Configurations

• Bean Scopes in Detail

• Logging (Async Logging, and other log appenders)

Module 3: Building Web Applications and Services

• Spring MVC Controllers (@RequestMapping, @RequestParam)

• Using JdbcTemplate (Database Access)

• Executing SQL Scripts

• JPA Data and Repositories

• JPA Mapping Relations (One-to-One, One-to-Many, Many-to-Many)

• Caching

• JPA Custom Queries

• JPA and NoSQL Integration

• RESTful Web Services

  • REST Overview (Characteristics, Capabilities, URI Templates, REST vs SOAP)

  • REST with Spring MVC

  • Spring Support for REST

  • Annotations: @RequestMapping, @PathVariable, @RequestBody, @ResponseBody, HTTP Method Conversion

  • URI Templates and @PathVariable

  • Writing RESTful Controllers (@RestController)

  • JSON Representations for Resources

  • Message Converters (JAXB, Jackson for JSON/XML)

  • Content Negotiation

  • Client Interaction with Spring's RestTemplate

Module 4: Advanced Topics

• Securing an Application with Spring Boot and Spring Security

  • Spring Security Overview (DelegatingFilterChainProxy, FilterChainProxy)

  • Spring Web Authentication and Key Classes (HttpSecurity, AuthenticationProvider, UserDetailsService, UserDetails, AuthenticationManager, Authentication, GrantedAuthorities)

  • Implementing Custom AuthenticationProvider and UserDetailsService (Hashed Passwords, Tokens)

  • Spring Security Authorization (AccessDecisionManager, AccessDecisionVoters)

  • Authorization with Annotations (@EnableGlobalMethodSecurity, JSR-250, Spring Security)

  • Exception Handling with @ControllerAdvice

  • Creating Custom Authorization Voter and AccessControlManager

  • HTTPS Implementation

  • Securing RESTful Services (Custom UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter)

  • JWT (JSON Web Token) Integration

• JMS Services

  • RabbitMQ Support (AMQP and JMS)

  • Using JmsTemplate

  • MessageListenerAdapter

  • SimpleMessageListenerContainer

  • JmsListenerContainerFactory

• Microservices

  • Microservices Architecture Design Pattern

  • Cloud-Native Design Principles

  • Microservices Overview

  • Security Considerations for Microservices

• Spring Cloud

  • Configuration Management with Spring Cloud Config

  • Service Discovery with Netflix Eureka

  • Load Balancing with Spring Cloud Netflix Ribbon

  • Circuit Breakers with Spring Cloud Netflix Hystrix

  • Circuit Breaker Metric Aggregation with Spring Cloud Netflix Turbine

  • Distributed Tracing

  • Pub/Sub Processing

  • Zuul Filters