Become a Java Developer SE 9

Spring Boot

Spring Boot is just one of the many platforms that developers may use to create interactive applications and optimum web services. In this five-part lecture, course takers are given a comprehensive discussion about the platform’s utilization and the ideal conduct for it. More so, the lessons included in this tutorial are geared towards the realization of the following objectives:

• Design and develop SOAP and RESTful web services
• Understand the technicalities of Spring Boot including its configuration tools
• Implement various commands such as exception handling, validation, and filtering
• Conduct, monitor, and document web services
• Utilize design principles and implement best practices in creating web applications and services
• Bridge applications and services to databases using JPA and HIBERNATE
• Familiarize a collection of Spring Boot starter projects

Getting Started

The introduction covers the basics including the requirements for the tutorial. After an elaborate checklist, it then provides an overview about web services. The definition, queries, and key terminologies related to Spring Boot are outlined before introducing more complicated concepts such as SOAP and RESTful web services.

SOAP

This section conducts a thorough discussion about the Simple Object Access Protocol and its direct involvement with Spring Boot functions. Course takers will be introduced to processes including running targets locally and starting the Spring Initializr.  It then provides several guides on how to: 

• Modify the developed files
• Generate domain objects using WSDL
• Develop country-based service client
• Configure web service variables
• Run the developed application

REST

This subsequent lesson discusses the principles of REST, another widely-used API. Representational State Transfer and its practices are outlined including its relevance to Spring Boot. Similar to the preceding lecture, it also introduces course takers to various development processes including manual initialization, resource representation class creation, resource controller development, and application testing.

Monitoring and Data

To completely see the development process through, this section had enumerated ideal tools that would allow for an easy monitoring and profiling of a Spring Boot application. Thoroughly discussed in this are the significant parameters and gauges that developers need to be mindful of. These and other important data are presented in theoretical and operational contexts.

Caching and Batching

Another aspect that bears lasting significance in application development are caching and batching. As both of these processes are imperative in the overall process, a separate section is provided for their best practices. These are:

• Job and step configuration
• Batch configuration
• Application testing

Other Resources

While this Spring Boot lecture tapped the integral factors of Spring Boot, application programming still demands for a thorough and more in-depth study. With this, a list of related readings is provided to bring forth a holistic learning for course takers.