Spring Fundamentals

1) Introduction in Spring Framework 

• Describe the framework architecture and components 
• Present the IoC (Inversion of Control) and DI (Dependency Injection) concepts 

2) Spring Core Components 

• Bean creation, scope and lifecycle  inside the Spring Context 
• Autowiring (by name, by type, constructor based, setter based, etc) 
• Configuration ( XML based vs Annotation based ), Spring profiles and property files. 
• Spring Context Event publishing 
• Spring Expression language 

3) Spring AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) 

• Describe what Aspect programming is and how are aspects and pointcuts defined 
• Present use cases like logging, transaction etc. 

4) Spring Boot – Things made easier 

• Describe why it is the most used framework in microservice implementations 
• Describe the concept of auto-configuration and create custom autoconfiguration 
• Short presentation of Gradle and Maven build tools. 
• Demo the Spring Initializer 

5) Spring MVC – Building a Web Application 

• Describe the MVC pattern 
• Describe the Http Protocol and Request Methods. 
• Create a small web application using Thymeleaf as a templating engine. 
• Provide Internationalization and Location 
• Error and Exception handling 

6) Persistence layer using Spring JDBC and Spring Data 

• Examples using Spring JDBC 
• Present what JPA and ORM framework are, mainly focused on the Hibernate framework. 
• Present the JPA Repository Interfaces and how Spring generates the required code based on the method’s name 
• Connect to in memory DB, SQL DB and No-SQL DB 

7) Creating a RESTful API 

• Create a CRUD example 
• Present best practices when creating a RESTful API. 
• Present Spring Data Rest 
• Present Hypermedia links and HAL browser 
• Swagger and OpenApi 

8) Spring Test Framework 

• Present Spring MockMVC 
• Spring Boot Annotations