The Complete Guide to Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3

Gain insights into Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3, exploring dependency injection, Spring MVC, JDBC, and AOP. Discover how to create robust applications with inversion of control.

Beginner

143 Lessons

13h 30min

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Gain insights into Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3, exploring dependency injection, Spring MVC, JDBC, and AOP. Discover how to create robust applications with inversion of control.

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13 Quizzes

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13 Quizzes

Course Overview

Expertise in the Spring framework is highly sought after and will help open up a lot of job opportunities for you. Here you will get familiar with Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 to add dependency injection into your applications. You will start with the basics of Spring like dependency injection, auto-wiring, and constructor injection. After the basics are out of the way you’ll move onto Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring JDBC, and Spring Data JPA. Lastly, you’ll delve into Spring’s support for AOP, unit testing...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Java

Back End Development

Spring

Spring Boot

What You'll Learn

Understand the basic concepts of the Spring Framework

Learn how to use Spring Boot to kickstart the development process

Interact with databases using Spring's support for JDBC and JPA

Learn the Spring MVC architecture

Use AOP for implementing cross-cutting concerns in Spring

Implement unit testing in the Spring framework

What You'll Learn

Understand the basic concepts of the Spring Framework

Course Content

Introduction

Get familiar with Spring, its evolution, core concepts, modular architecture, and sustained popularity.

Reasons for Sustained Popularity

Spring Basics

Get started with creating and managing Spring projects and dependencies using Spring Boot.

Creating a Project

Dependency

Decoupling Components

Managing Beans and Dependencies

Autowiring By Type — @Primary

Autowiring By Name

Autowiring — @Qualifier

Constructor and Setter Injection

Quiz: Spring Basics

Spring In-depth

Master bean management and lifecycle techniques, dependency injection, and Spring configurations.

Bean Scope

Mixing Bean Scope

@ComponentScan

Bean Lifecycle: @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy

Bean Lifecycle: Prototype Scoped Beans

Contexts and Dependency Injection Framework

Spring Application Configuration

XML Application Configuration

XML Configuration with Java Annotations

Stereotype Annotations

Using an External Property File

Quiz: Spring In-depth

Challenge: Spring In-depth

Spring Boot

Enhance your skills in Spring Boot with configurations, REST services, Developer Tools, Actuator, and MVC comparison.

What is Spring Boot?

Creating a REST Service

Developer Tools

Actuator

Comparing Spring Boot and Spring MVC

Quiz: Spring Boot

Spring JDBC

Solve problems in Spring JDBC for seamless database operations, queries, and customization.

Creating a JDBC Starter Project

Setting up the H2 Database

Spring Data JPA

9 Lessons

Focus on utilizing JPA for streamlined CRUD operations, entity management, and database connectivity.

Spring REST Fundamentals

8 Lessons

Explore Spring's REST capabilities, JSON data binding, Postman usage, and effective REST API design.

Spring REST Advanced Operations and Error Management

9 Lessons

Step through advanced REST operations, error handling, and Spring Data REST customization.

Database Relationships in Spring

9 Lessons

Walk through creating and managing various database relationships using Spring Boot and JPA.

10.

Spring Aspect Orientated Programming (AOP)

10 Lessons

Break apart Spring AOP concepts, creating modular, maintainable, and secure applications.

11.

Configuring a Basic Enterprise Web Application

8 Lessons

Break down the steps to configure a basic enterprise web application using Spring Boot.

12.

Spring MVC Fundamentals

11 Lessons

Deepen your knowledge of Spring MVC architecture, components, configuration, controllers, views, models, and form handling.

13.

Spring MVC Advanced Concepts

11 Lessons

See how it works with advanced Spring MVC concepts, form tags, validation, and custom configuration.

14.

Unit Testing in Spring

13 Lessons

Build on key practices in unit testing within Spring using JUnit, Mockito, and Spring Boot.

15.

Interview Questions

11 Lessons

Learn how to use key Spring and Spring Boot features to enhance application development.

16.

Epilogue

2 Lessons

Discover the logic behind the Spring framework, its advanced topics, and participant feedback.

Course Author

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Front-end Developer

Eric Downs

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Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Evan Dunbar

ML Engineer

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