Spring and Spring Boot interview guide with 200+ questions and answers, and topics covering REST API, JPA, Hibernate, and Spring Data JPA
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Spring and Spring Boot interview guide with 200+ questions and answers, and topics covering REST API, JPA, Hibernate, and Spring Data JPA
About This Video
In Detail
The Spring framework is the most popular Java framework ever. It continues to evolve with changing architectures. Spring Boot is one of the most popular Spring projects and is the most used Java framework to develop RESTful services and microservices.
Preparing for a Spring Interview is tricky. There are a wide variety of Spring modules and Spring projects that you need to recollect and be prepared to answer questions on. You’ll need to get a good understanding of the new features of Spring and have a firm grasp of the concepts you’ve implemented in your projects. This course helps you prepare for Spring interviews with code examples and over 200+ questions and answers.
This course starts with the Spring Application Framework in detail. Next, you will learn about the Spring MVC framework. Later, you will learn about Spring Boot goals, features and various concepts such as auto configuration, starter projects, and so on. In this section, you will learn about Spring Data, Spring JDBC and JPA in detail. After that, you will look at unit and integration testing in Spring. Following that, you will learn about AOP in Spring and SOAP web services in detail. Finally, you will learn about RESTful web services in detail.
By the end of this course, you will get a good refresher on Spring concepts and syntax and become confident before the interviews.
Who this book is for
This course is for individuals who are learning Java and Spring with a view to attending Java and Spring interviews and those who want to add more depth to their Spring knowledge.
This course uses Eclipse as the IDE to demonstrate code examples and you are expected to have programming experience with Java and Spring.
Chapter 1 : Introduction to the Course
Preview to Spring Interview Guide
Introduction to Our GitHub Repository
Setting Up the Course Presentation
Overview of Spring Interview Guide
Chapter 2 : Spring Framework
Basics of Spring Framework
Spring Application Context and IOC Container
Spring - Component Scan
@Controller, @Component, @Repository, and @Service Annotations
Scope of a Bean
Setter and Constructor Injection
Spring Application Contexts - XML and Java Configuration
Spring and Autowiring
Debugging with Spring Framework. @Primary and @Qualifier
CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection) and Spring
Spring Major Versions and New Features
Spring Modules
Spring Projects
Spring Design Patterns, BOM and Annotations
Big Picture of Spring Framework
Chapter 3 : Spring MVC
Web Application Architectures - Model 1, Model 2, and Front Controller
Spring MVC High Level Flow
Dispatcher Servlet and Configuration
Form Backing Object, Form Tags, Validation and Binding Result
Path Variable, Model and Session Attributes
Date Format Binding
Exception Handling and Controller Advice
Why is Spring MVC Popular?
Chapter 4 : Spring Boot
Spring Boot - Goals and Features
Spring Boot Versus Spring Versus Spring MVC
@SpringBootApplication
Introduction to Autoconfiguration
Embedded Servers - Tomcat, Jetty, and Undertow
Introduction to Starter Projects
Starter Parent and Dependency Management
Creating Spring Projects with Spring Initializr
Configuration with Application Properties
Custom Application Configuration with @ConfigurationProperties
Spring Boot Profiles
Monitoring your application with Spring Boot Actuator
Do things at application startup with CommandLineRunner
Chapter 5 : Spring Data, Spring JDBC and JPA
Spring JDBC - JdbcTemplate and RowMapper
JPA, Hibernate - Entity and Entity Manager
JPA Relationships - One to One, One to Many, Many to Many
JPA Configuration - Data Source, persistence.xml, and Entity Manager Factory
Spring Data - Need, Overview, and Repository
Chapter 6 : Unit and Integration Testing
Unit Testing with Mockito
Unit Testing Controllers with Mock MVC Framework
Integration Testing with Spring Boot
Chapter 7 : AOP
Introduction to Spring AOP
AOP Basics - Aspect, Pointcut, Advice, and Weaving
Chapter 8 : SOAP Web Services
What is a Web Service?
SOAP Web Service - SOAP Envelope, Header, and Body
SOAP Request Examples - SOAP Header
WSDL - An Overview
Contract First Approach and XSD
JAXB and Configuration with Spring Web Services
Writing an Endpoint with Spring Web Services
MessageDispatcherServlet and Configuration
Generating a WSDL with Spring Web Services
Error Handling for SOAP Web Services
Chapter 9 : RESTful Web Services
What is REST?
Best Practices of RESTful Services
GET Resource method with Spring REST
POST Resource method with Spring REST and ResponseEntity
Implementing HATEOAS for RESTful Web Services
Documenting RESTful Web Services with Swagger
Content Negotiation and Representation of a Resource
Exception Handling and Validation for RESTFul Web Services
Versioning for RESTful Web Services
Chapter 10 : Congratulations
Conclusion to Spring Interview Guide