Spring Boot 2 Fundamentals

In this lesson, we will learn how to interact with Spring Beans and how to configure our Spring context. This is the foundation that every Spring application is built on. We shall also learn the different topics covered in the lesson along with the learning objectives.

Let us begin with the topic where we learn how you can inject Spring Beans into other Beans and how we can help Spring in cases where the injector is not uniquely identifiable.

We will then look at how to configure our applications with profiles and configuration files. Let us look at the video to learn the topic in further detail.

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Let us now learn about different ways to test Spring applications. This lesson will focus on unit tests and how they are different than the other test types. We shall also learn the different topics covered in the lesson along with the learning objectives.

In this topic, we will learn how you can test the classes of your application as regular classes or with some Spring support for wiring dependencies.

Let us experience the simplicity and the speed of unit tests and the expressiveness and power of integration tests. Let us look at it in further detail.

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Let us now learn how to build a web-based application in Spring that uses web pages to interact with the user. We shall also learn the different topics covered in the lesson along with the learning objectives.

Let us begin with the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. It separates the main concerns of a web application into a model, a view, and a controller. Let us learn it in more detail.

We then learn to distinguish between a request- and a component-based MVC, which differs in how the framework handles incoming requests by either taking care of conversion, validation, and so let us further learn about it.

The developer can also handle the aspects of conversion and validation which requires a different code reusability. Let us understand it in this topic.

In this final topic, we will learn to implement our first Spring Web MVC application, to handle incoming requests and display a simple page output.

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In this lesson, let us learn how to display information that has been made available from the controller as model attributes in a view. We shall also learn the different topics covered in the lesson along with the learning objectives.

In this section, we will learn about the Thymeleaf template engine and look at how to add the required dependency to our project and the basic syntax to write view templates.

Now, let us look at how Spring MVC handles the model and how to add attributes to it. Adding and accessing attributes is similar to a Java Map

In the last section, we will look at expressions and control statements that Thymeleaf uses to insert data from the model, iterate through lists, and conditionally display parts of the page.

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In this lesson, we will learn about creating HTML forms for data acquisition. Once the data is acquired, we will then examine it. Lastly, we will examine the types of fields used to store the data. We shall also learn the different topics covered in the lesson along with the learning objectives.

HTML offers a construct called forms to allow the update or the input of data. Let’s understand it in more detail in this topic

Let us learn about adding validation messages in templates which includes setting a new default message for a validator, setting the message for a bean property, and providing translation for messages.

This topic will enable us to use the different types of input fields that are part of HTML with the Thymeleaf template engine. These values of the fields need to be bound to the attributes of the model to be processed by the controller. Let’s learn it in detail.

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This lesson built straight on top of the concepts of the previous lessons, expanding your mastery of Spring MVC controllers to different responses. This is flexible enough to return any kind of data but is particularly suited to serve REST APIs. We shall also learn the different topics covered in the lesson along with the learning objectives.

REST APIs are the backbone of communication services. They are what modern distributed cloud-based applications work through. Let us understand and work towards it in more detail.

We will now look at REST Controllers in Spring and how to implement all the REST-guiding principles that we introduced previously. These advanced elements are not REST-specific and can sometimes become useful in a normal Spring MVC context, but they are indispensable for implementing REST controllers. Let us learn about it in detail.

Let us now learn about HATEOAS that is used to gives the server and client much more flexibility. We will further learn about extending an application with Spring HATEOAS.

Let us learn some exercise on the concepts of REST application, consuming different content types, and understanding the use and implementation of HATEOAS.

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Let us look at many aspects of security, particularly those that you, as a software developer, should have on your agenda. We shall also learn the different topics covered in the lesson along with the learning objectives.

In this topic, we get introduced to the importance of securing the web application, understand the concept of RESTful APIs, the threats to web application, Insecure Deserialization, allowing access to resources, and finally, learn about Authentication and Authorization.

Let us move on to Spring Security and its defaults with understanding how to secure web browsing in a session with some exercises.

Let us now understand the concept of explicit configuration, security configuration entry point, adding hardcoded users with exercises on web security.

Let us get introduced to method-level security, roles allowed in it, security controllers, and learn about beyond access. We will also look at the security context, password encoders, real repositories, and cross-site request forgery.

Finally, we see some exercises on testing security aspects with a real user repository, and cross-origin resource sharing (CORS).

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In this lesson, we will look at choosing a database management system. The choice of systems depends on various factors, such as visualization and reporting, security, scalability, and cost, to name a few. There are also various kinds of databases, and one of them is the relational database. We shall then learn the different topics covered in the lesson along with the learning objectives.

Let us first get a brief introduction of relational databases, the workhorses of the industry. Spring makes it easy to access those databases.

Now, let us learn about JDBC which the low-level access API to the database is. Let us understand about JDBC examples and other concepts in further detail.

Let us begin this section with the exercises on advances queries and returning structured data along with mapping rows and learning about CRUD operations.

Let us now look at Schema Updates, database migrations with Flyway, and utilizing Flyway.

Let us have a final look at into some advanced topics that are otherwise outside the scope of this course.

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