This workshop will provide participants with all the knowledge necessary to pass the latest exams. Spring Certified Professional Developer Certification necessary. In addition to conveying the concepts, typical certification questions are discussed and practiced. The trainers are themselves certified Spring Professional Developers.

Section 1 – Spring Core

Objective 1.1 Introduction to Spring Framework

Objective 1.2 Java Configuration

1.2.1 Define Spring Beans using Java code
1.2.2 Access Beans in the Application Context
1.2.3 Handle multiple configuration files
1.2.4 Handle dependencies between beans
1.2.5 Explain and define bean scopes

Objective 1.3 Properties and Profiles

1.3.1 Use External Properties to control Configuration
1.3.2 Demonstrate the purpose of Profiles
1.3.3 Use the Spring Expression Language (SpEL)

Objective 1.4 Annotation-Based Configuration and Component Scanning

1.4.1 Explain and use Annotation-based Configuration
1.4.2 Discuss Best Practices for Configuration choices
1.4.3 Use @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy
1.4.4 Explain and use “Stereotype” annotations

Objective 1.5 Spring Bean Lifecycle

1.5.1 Explain the Spring Bean Lifecycle
1.5.2 Use a BeanFactoryPostProcessor and a BeanPostProcessor
1.5.3 Explain how Spring proxies add behavior at runtime
1.5.4 Describe how Spring determines bean creation order
1.5.5 Avoid issues when Injecting beans by type

Objective 1.6 Aspect Oriented Programming

1.6.1 Explain the concepts behind AOP and the problems that it solves
1.6.2 Implement and deploy Advices using Spring AOP
1.6.3 Use AOP Pointcut Expressions
1.6.4 Explain different types of Advice and when to use them

Section 2 – Data Management

Objective 2.1 Introduction to Spring JDBC

2.1.1 Use and configure Spring's JdbcTemplate
2.1.2 Execute queries using callbacks to handle result sets
2.1.3 Handle data access exceptions

Objective 2.2 Transaction Management with Spring

2.2.1 Describe and use Spring Transaction Management
2.2.2 Configure Transaction Propagation
2.2.3 Setup Rollback rules
2.2.4 Use Transactions in Tests

Objective 2.3 Spring Boot and Spring Data for Backing Stores

2.3.1 Implement a Spring JPA application using Spring Boot
2.3.2 Create Spring Data Repositories for JPA

Section 3 – Spring MVC

Objective 3.1 Web Applications with Spring Boot

3.1.1 Explain how to create a Spring MVC application using Spring Boot
3.1.2 Describe the basic request processing lifecycle for REST requests
3.1.3 Create a simple RESTful controller to handle GET requests
3.1.4 Configure for deployment

Objective 3.2 REST Applications

3.2.1 Create controllers to support the REST endpoints for various verbs
Utilize RestTemplate to invoke RESTful services
3.2.2 Section 4 – Testing

Objective 4.1 Testing Spring Applications

4.1.1 Write tests using JUnit 5
4.1.2 Write Integration Tests using Spring
4.1.3 Configure Tests using Spring Profiles
4.1.4 Extend Spring Tests to work with Databases

Objective 4.2 Advanced Testing with Spring Boot and MockMVC

4.2.1 Enable Spring Boot testing
4.2.2 Perform integration testing
4.2.3 Perform MockMVC testing
4.2.4 Perform slice testing

Section 5 – Security

Objective 5.1 Explain basic security concepts
Objective 5.2 Use Spring Security to configure Authentication and Authorization
Objective 5.3 Define Method-level Security

Section 6 – Spring Boot

Objective 6.1 Spring Boot Feature Introduction

6.1.1 Explain and use Spring Boot features
6.1.2 Describe Spring Boot dependency management

Objective 6.2 Spring Boot Properties and Autoconfiguration

6.2.1 Describe options for defining and loading properties
6.2.2 Utilize auto-configuration
6.2.3 Override default configuration

Objective 6.3 Spring Boot Actuator

6.3.1 Configure Actuator endpoints
6.3.2 Secure Actuator HTTP endpoints
6.3.3 Define custom metrics
6.3.4 Define custom health indicators