Spring Boot REST API Course

Goals

Course Objectives

• Understanding Spring Boot - When was Spring Boot created and What is it?

• Benefits of using Spring Boot - Why to use Spring Boot?

• Very Important Features of Spring Boot

• SpringBootApplication Annotation - What are the benefits of using @SpringBootApplication.

• Auto Configuration - What is Auto Configuration and How we can enable it ? How to create Custom Auto Configuration ?

• Spring Boot Starters - What are the benefits of using Starters? How to add these starters in the Application?

• Embedded Servers - Know about different Embedded Servers and how to override the default port and also change the Server.

• Spring Boot Actuator - What is the use of Spring Boot Actuator? What are the different actuator endpoints ?

• What is REST? Understand the actual meaning of REST(Representation State Transfer) 

• REST Principles - Understand various REST Principles in Depth

• REST Verbs and Idempotent Verbs

• Designing resource URIs in REST API

• Build a Simple Spring Boot REST API

• Explore H2 Console

• Explore Actuator Endpoints

• Use Swagger UI to hit all the exposed endpoints of the REST API and test different scenarios.

Prerequisites

Core Java

Spring Framework Basics