Spring & Spring Boot: Introduction and Advanced Topics
A practical Spring Boot course for Java teams that need to build, test, and operate real backend services with confidence.
Hands-on training in Spring Framework and Spring Boot. This course is for programmers new to this technology who want to get started quickly in the Spring ecosystem. It covers the most important topics used in real projects and explains some of the more advanced concepts.
60% workshop /
40% lecture
- Training Materials
- Slack Community
Developers and Tech Leads
- Core Spring: beans, configuration, auto-configuration
- REST APIs with Spring Web, validation, and JSON
- Data access with Spring Data JPA and transactions
- Testing with Spring Boot Test and Testcontainers
- Actuator, profiles, external config, packaging, Docker
Day 1
- •Introduction
- ○Why choose Spring Boot in my project?
- ○Spring Ecosystem
- •Spring Core
- ○Framework Architecture
- ○Dependency Injection
- ○Inversion of Control
- •Components
- ○Stereotypes
- ○Scopes
- ○Life cycle
- •Configuration
- ○Code-based configuration
- ○File-based configuration
- ○Profiles
- ○Auto-configuration
Day 2
- •Application Events
- •Additional features
- ○SpEL expressions
- ○Scheduling
- ○I18n
- ○Asynchronous operations
- •Data access
- ○JDBC template
- ○Spring Data
- ○Introduction
- ○JDBC
- ○Jpa / Hibernate
- ○Transaction management
- •Web development
- ○Rest Controllers
- ○Hypermedia support (HATEOAS)
- ○WebFlux
Day 3
- •Testing
- ○Unit tests setup, Spock, Junit
- ○Integration tests setup
- ○Integration with database
- ○Testing application services
- ○Testing REST
- ○Test execution listeners
- ○Profiles
- •AOP - Aspect Oriented Programming
- •Logging and Monitoring
- ○Logging
- ○Actuator
- ○Metrics
- •Containerizing Spring Boot application
- ○Building Docker images
- ○Using Dockerfile
- ○Using maven plugins (Spring, Jib, Buildpack)
- ○Optimizing size of Docker images
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