Certificate Authentication

Overview of main changes to Java 8

• Lambda Expressions, Method References, Streams, and Default Methods

Behaviour Parameterization

• Motivation for Lambda Expressions

Overview of Stream and Stream operations

• Filtering, Slicing, Finding, Matching, Mapping, And Reducing

Complex data processing queries using collectors

Leveraging multicore architectures with Streams

Improving existing code using new Java 8 features

• Design Patterns, Refactoring, Testing, And Debugging

Using default methods to evolve APIs

• Usage patterns and rules

Using new java.util.Optional class

Exploring CompletableFuture

Exploring new Date and Time API

Writing Functional-style programs in Java 8

• Higher-Order Functions, Currying, Persistent Data Structures, Lazy Lists, And Pattern Matching

Overview of Spring essentials

• OO principles
• Inversion of Control
• Spring ApplicationContext
• BeanFactory
• XML configuration files
• Why dependency injection?
• Injection through setters
• Injection through constructors
• Setters versus constructors

Introducing to Spring Boot

• Spring WebFlux, SpringFox, Spring Data, Spring Cloud Stream, Docker

Introducing Spring Cloud

• Service discovery
• Edge server
• Centralized configuration
• Circuit breaker
• Distributed tracing

Writing REST APIs in Spring

Defining REST endpoints in Spring MVC

• MVC design pattern
• DispatcherServlet
• Controllers
• Models
• JSPs

Enabling hyperlinked REST resources

Spring Data REST

• Automatically generate repository-based REST endpoints
• Creating tables, entities, and fields
• Working with data sources
• Creating repositories
• Using POST and PUT
• Configuring a path
• Creating an API
• Implementing an API
• Exploring resources
• Paging and sorting
• Maintaining API exposure
• Customizing JSON serialization
• Applying custom finder methods

Consuming a REST API from Spring application

Enabling Spring application to use asynchronous communication

• Java Message Service (JMS), RabbitMQ, and Kafka

Spring Integration project

• Declarative application integration

Project Reactor

• Essentials of reactive programming

Working with Spring WebFlux

Reactive data persistence with Spring Data

• Cassandra and Mongo databases

Introduction to Hibernate

• Architecture/Structure
• The life cycle of objects and identify objects

Hibernate in Action

• Mapping tables on POJO category
• Construction of POJO category
• Mapping properties of the columns in the tables
• Establishing relationships between objects

Transactions in Hibernate

• Local and global transactions
• Overview of API transactions
• Levels of transaction

Language HQL - Hibernate Query Language

Combining Hibernate and Spring applications

Overview of Spring-based microservices

Using Spring Cloud’s Config Server

• Setting up a config server
• Configuring clients of a config server
• Structuring the configuration repository

Applying the circuit breaker pattern

• Resilience4j, Netflix Hystrix\

Adding distributed tracing

• Spring Cloud Sleuth and Zipkin
• Successful and unsuccessful API requests

Using Spring Boot Actuator

• REST endpoints and JMX MBeans

Using the Spring Boot Admin

Exposing and consuming Spring beans as JMX MBeans

Testing with Postman

• Creating resources
• Customizing associations
• Exposing resources

Authenticating and authorizing API access

• OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect

Summary and Conclusion