Getting Started

• Dependency Management with Gradle (and Maven)
• Setting up Eclipse
• Hello World from the command line
• Hello World from Eclipse

Spring Framework

• Overview of Spring Projects
• Dependency Injection concepts
• Inversion of Control (IOC)
• Dependency Injection

IoC Container

• Overview of IoC container and Beans
• Types of dependency injection
• XML Based and Annotation Based
• Bean Scopes
• Bean Life Cycle
• Types of Dependency Injection (and what is supported)
• Autowiring and Autowiring modes
• Spring Context Events

Spring – Overview of Some Components

• Aspect Oriented Programming with Spring
  • PointCut
  • Advices
  • Caching in Spring – a case study of AOP
• Unit Testing in Spring
  • Using Mock Objects
  • Mockito

Spring Boot

• Use of the Spring Boot CLI
• Creating a simple application
• Using Embedded Servers
• Building REST APIs
• Integrating tests
• Spring Boot Actuator
• Integrating Thymeleaf templates
• Integrating Security
• Integrating a remote shell

Relational Database Design and ORM Issues

• Understanding ER design and Object Modeling
• Comparing relational database design to Object Modeling
• Types of relationships
• Database storage structures
• Need for indexes to increase efficiency
• Object Relational Mapping
• Impedance mismatch in OR Mapping
• Expectations from an ORM framework

Spring – Data Access

• Spring Transaction Management with the Data Layer
  • Begin a transaction
  • Commit
  • Rolling back for specific exceptions
• DAO with Spring
• JDBC with Spring
• Spring ORM and integration with Hibernate
• Spring OXM
• Support for other NoSQL stores (Spring Data JPA)

Spring – Security

• Authentication and Authorization
• Building a custom authentication manager
• Authorities

Spring – MVC

• The DispatcherServlet
• Implementing Controllers
• RequestMapping
• Resolving Views
• Using Security with Spring MVC