Core Spring Quick Start | Spring Essentials, Spring Boot, AOP, Persistence & More

Master enterprise application development with the Core Spring Quick Start course, ideal for experienced Java developers looking to leverage Spring 5.x and Spring Boot 2.x for streamlined, OO-based solutions.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Explain how Spring addresses complex JEE framework issues.

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Understand and configure Spring Boot for application development.

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Implement persistence and transaction management in Spring applications.

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Apply Aspect Oriented Programming within Spring.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 2 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Experienced Java developers
  • Enterprise application developers
  • Software architects
  • Developers transitioning from JEE to Spring

Description

The Spring framework is an application framework that provides a lightweight container that supports the creation of simple-to-complex components in a non-invasive fashion. Spring's flexibility and transparency is congruent and supportive of incremental development and testing. The framework's structure supports the layering of functionality such as persistence, transactions, view-oriented frameworks, and enterprise systems and capabilities. This course targets Spring 5.x, which includes full support for Java SE 11 and Java EE 8. Spring supports the use of lambda expressions and method references in many of its APIs. Spring makes enterprise development easier. Spring simplifies common tasks and encourages good design based on programming to interfaces. Spring makes your application easier to configure and reduces the need for many JEE design patterns. Spring puts the OO design back into your enterprise application, and it integrates nicely with many view technologies and the new features of HTML5. Core Spring Quick Start: Introduction to Spring 5.x and Spring Boot 2.x is a hands-on Spring training course geared for experienced Java developers who need to understand what the Spring Framework is in terms of today's systems and architectures, and how to use Spring in conjunction with other technologies and frameworks. Students will gain hands-on experience working with Spring, using Maven for project and dependency management, and, optionally, a test-driven approach (using JUnit) to the labs in the course.

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Upcoming Course Dates

September 8-9, 2025

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Virtual: Online - US/Eastern

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$1895

December 15-16, 2025

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Virtual: Online - US/Eastern

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Course Outline

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The Spring Framework

  1. Understand the value of Spring

  2. Explore Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IoC)

  3. Introduce different ways of configuring collaborators

  4. Spring as an Object Factory

  5. Initializing the Spring IoC Container

Configuring Spring Managed Beans

  1. Introduce Java-based configuration

  2. The @Configuration and @Bean annotations

  3. Define bean dependencies

  4. Bootstrapping Java Config

  5. Context Injection in Configuration classes

  6. Using context Profiles

  7. Conditionally loading beans and configurations

  8. Bean Life-Cycle Methods

Defining Bean Dependencies

  1. Introduce Spring annotations for defining dependencies

  2. Explore the @Autowired annotation

  3. Stereotype Annotations

  4. Qualifying injection points

  5. Lifecycle annotations

  6. Using properties in Java based configuration

  7. The @Value annotation

  8. Using the Candidate Components Index

Introduction to Spring Boot

  1. Introduce the basics of Spring Boot

  2. Explain auto-configuration

  3. Introduce the Spring Initializr application

  4. Bootstrapping a Spring Boot application

Working with Spring Boot

  1. Provide an overview of Spring Boot

  2. Introduce starter dependencies

  3. Introduce auto-configuration

  4. @Enable... annotations

  5. Conditional configuration

  6. Spring Boot Externalized Configuration

  7. Bootstrapping Spring Boot

Introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming

  1. Aspect Oriented Programming

  2. Cross Cutting Concerns

Spring AOP

  1. Spring AOP in a Nutshell

  2. @AspectJ support

  3. Spring AOP advice types

  4. AspectJ pointcut designators

Spring Data Overview

  1. Spring Data Capabilities and Features

  2. Spring Data repositories

  3. The Repository interfaces

  4. Defining the JPA entity

  5. Persisting entities using Spring Data JPA

  6. Bootstrapping the Spring Data application

Spring Data Query Methods

  1. Querying data using Query methods

  2. Query builder mechanism

  3. Handling an Absence of Value

  4. Pagination and Ordering

  5. Asynchronous query methods

  6. Count and Delete Derived Query methods

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