Spring for the Absolute Beginners [2023]

[Updated June 2023]

This course primarily focuses on the fundamentals of the Spring Framework. This course is for you if you are keen to understand the Spring core concepts on dependency injection, bean configurations, Aspect Oriented Programming etc.

A comprehensive guide on Spring fundamentals. Whether you are a beginner on Spring Framework or an experience Spring developer, there are many takeaways from this course.

It covers the following Spring concepts:-

Module 1: Course Overview

1. Introduction

2. What we need

3. Target Audience

4. Prerequisites

5. Course Walkthrough

6. What we’ll not cover

7. Module Summary

Module 2:  Set up the development Environment

1. Introduction

2. Installing Java

3. Installing Maven

4. Installing – Spring Tool Suite

5. Creating Maven Project in Spring Tool Suite

6. Installing – Intellij IDEA

7. Creating Maven Project in Intellij Idea

Module 3: Spring Core Introduction

1. Spring Overview

2. Spring History

3. Spring Modules

4. Dependency Management: Traditional Ways

5. Dependency Management: Dependency Injection

6. Concepts of POJO and Bean

7. Inversion of Control: Spring IOC Container

8. Bean Factory Interface

9. ApplicationContext Interface

10. Configuring beans: XML-based, Annotation and Java Config configuration

11. Module conclusion

Module 4: Java Configuration

1. Configuring Beans with Java Configuration

2. Component scan with @ComponentScan

3. @Configuration and @Bean Annotation

4. @Component, @Configuration, @Service and @Repository annotations

5. Constructor Injection

6. Autowiring POJOs

7. @Primary Annotation

8. @Qualifier Annotation

9. Importing Configuration

10. @Scope Annotation

11. @Lazy Annotation

12. @DependsOn

Module 5: Spring Beans Deep Dive

1. Introduction

2. Bean Life Cycle Callbacks

3. @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotations

4. Bean Scope

5. Bean Post Processor

6. POJO Creation with factory methods – Static factory, instance method and Spring factory bean

7. Managing environments – @Profile annotation

8. Spring Aware Interfaces

9. BeanNameAware

10. BeanFactoryAware

11. ApplicationContextAware

12. MessageSourceAware

13. ResourceLoaderAware

14. EnvironmentAware

Module 6: Spring Aspect-Oriented Programming

1. AOP Introduction

2. Core AOP Concepts

3. What is Aspect?

4. JoinPoint

5. What is Advice?

6. Pointcut

7. AOP Proxy

8. AspectJ

9. Weaving

10. AspectJ and @EnableAspectJAutoProxy annotation

11. Advice Annotations: @Before, @After, @AfterReturing, @AfterThrowing, @Around

12. @Before and @After Annotation

13. @AfterReturning Annotation

14. @AfterThrowing Annotation

15. @Around

16. Demonstration

Module 7: Spring Task Executor

1. Introduction to Java Executor, ExecutorService

2. Runnable, Callable and Future

3. Threadpool – A fixed thread pool, Cached thread pool, Single thread executor, scheduled thread pool executor

4. Spring TaskExecutor

5. Spring SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor

6. Spring SyncTaskExecutor

7. Spring TaskExecutorAdapter

Module 8: Communication between Beans – ApplicationEvent Management

1. Introduction

2. ApplicationListener Interface

3. ApplicationEventPublisher

4. Example

Module 9: XML-Based Configuration

1. Introduction

2. Configuring POJOs with XML-based configuration

3. ClassPathXmlApplicationContext

4. Setter-based Dependency Injection

5. Constructor-based Dependency Injection

6. Constructor vs Setter based Injections

7. Circular dependencies

8. Composing XML-based Configuration Metadata

9. Referencing Other beans

10. Inner Beans

11. Handling Java Collections

12. Merging Collections

13. Depends-on

14. Lazy-Initialization

Module 10:  Autowiring (XML-Based )

1. Basics of Autowiring

2. Autowiring Types,

3. No Autowiring,

4. Autowiring byName,

5. Autowiring byType

6. Autowiring constructor

7. Issues with Autowiring

Module 11: Conclusion

1. Source Code

2. Course Summary

3. What’s Next?

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