Building RESTful APIs with Spring Boot

Having developed back-end applications for more than a decade using a variety of technologies we've decided to put together a comprehensive course on how to build RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot - one of our favorite technology stacks.

Our course comes with an example project that builds a production ready application - that is an important differentiator for us as most other courses only address production ready concerns superficially.

Our sample project can be used as the basis for your own application saving you many times over the cost of this course.

Table of Contents

Course Objectives

Project Objectives

  Project Output

  Business Requirements

Development Environment Setup

  Software Versions

  Download and Install Java 9

  Download and Install Eclipse IDE for Java EE

  Setup Eclipse for Java 9

    Configure JRE for Workspace

    Configure Compiler Options for Project

  Import Course Project

  Generate Your Own Project Skeleton

  Setup Eclipse with Maven

  Debugging

  Testing During Development

     Importing the Provided Postman Request Collection

     Build Your Own Request In Postman

       Building OAuth-Token Request

       Building User Search Request

Maven Build File

Design

  Data Modeling

  Entities

  DDL Generation

    Generate DLL from Modelling Tool

    Generate DDL from the Application

Spring Boot Configuration File

   application.properties

   application-dev.properties

   application-prod.properties

Cross Cutting Concerns

  Validation

  Caching  

  Exception Handling

  Transaction Management

  Logging

  Metrics

  Security

    OAuth2

    SSL

    Method Level Security

    URL Level Security

    Implementation

      RentalsUserDetails

      RentalsUserDetailsService

      SecurityConfiguration

      AuthorizationServerSecurityConfiguration

      ResourceServerSecurityConfiguration

JPA Data Converters

Application Initialization Classes

  RentalApplication

  JacksonConfiguration

  SwaggerConfiguration

  DevConfiguration

  SecurityConfiguration

  Application Configuration

JPA Entities

  Asset.java

    Associations

    Primary Key

    Validation

  AssetItem.java

    Associations

    Validation

DTO (Data Transfer Objects)

Repositories

Components

Services

RESTful API Design

  REST Principles

  Best Practices

  Searching and Pagination

  Rentals API Design

  Versioning

Rest Controllers

  POST Request to Create a Resource

  POST Requests for Search

  POST Requests for Business Actions

  DELETE Request to Delete a Resource

  PUT Request to Update a Resource

  GET Request to Get a Resource

Testing

  Unit Testing

    Unit Testing of Repository Classes

    Unit Testing of Service and Component Classes

    Unit Testing of Rest Controller Classes

    Debugging Unit Tests

  Integration Testing

    Debugging Integration Tests