Spring and Spring Boot in 3 Weeks

If you’re an enterprise developer coding in Java, you’ve probably asked yourself, “How can I become a more productive programmer without compromising the speed and flexibility of my applications?” Well, for starters, you can supercharge your existing Java applications—and grow your skills as an enterprise developer—by learning how to program in Spring and Spring Boot.

The surest route to adding Spring and Spring Boot to your developer toolkit is learning directly from one of the masters of the field. Join acclaimed developer, trainer, and consultant Ken Kousen (Kousen IT, Inc.) for a three-part series that will get you up and running with Spring and Spring Boot. Through hands-on exercises and examples, you’ll learn how to create new server-side applications with the Spring Boot initializer, make effective use of Spring’s transactional, persistence, and injection services, and take advantage of the latest features of both the Spring platform and Java 8. Along the way, you’ll also discover how to develop and deploy both RESTful web services and MVC applications.

Week 1: Spring and Spring Boot Fundamentals

Week 1 focuses on creating new server-side applications with the Spring Boot initializer. You’ll also learn how to take advantage of the latest features of both the Spring platform and Java 8.

Week 2: Spring Persistence—JdbcTemplate, JPA, and Spring Data

Applications generate data, and that data needs to be managed beyond the life of the application. Spring provides several ways to work with persistent data. Week 2 focuses on three primary ways to work with relational databases: through the JdbcTemplate class, using Hibernate and the Java Persistence API (JPA), and using the generated DAO layer provided by Spring Data. You’ll also dive into how to access NoSQL databases.

Week 3: Spring MVC—Web Applications and RESTful Web Services

The Spring MVC module helps you generate both web applications and RESTful web services, through both an annotation-based approach and so-called functional endpoints. Week 3 takes you beyond the basics to cover the full range of HTTP verbs. You’ll also learn how to do error handling, perform integration testing, and work with profiles so you can switch between databases during development, test, and production.

NOTE: With today’s registration, you’ll be signed up for all three sessions. Although you can attend any of the three sessions individually, we recommend participating in all three weeks and pursuing the skills challenges in between sessions.

Skills challenges

At the end of each week, Ken will provide you with a skills challenge—an interactive scenario-based evaluation to help you determine whether you’ve mastered the skills taught in the live training and whether you’re ready to apply these skills in a real-world setting.

To reinforce your learning, we strongly recommend pursuing each skills challenge before the next week of the course. If you’re unable to successfully complete the challenge, try reviewing the video recording of the live training (emailed to you 24 hours after each session) for tips.