Spring Data 3

Course details

Are you ready to get up and running with Spring Data 3? In this hands-on coding course, instructor Mary Ellen Bowman guides you through the essential steps of implementing Spring Data JPA features for persisting and querying relational databases. Along the way, get an overview of Spring Data REST, Spring Data MongoDB, and how to leverage reactive repositories that support non-blocking data source drivers—all from directly within your browser.

Learning objectives
Analyze how Spring Data reduces boilerplate code in database interactions compared to traditional methods.
Apply Spring Data concepts to create efficient query methods for both Reactive and Servlet Stack applications.
Evaluate the benefits of using Spring Data in back-end Java development projects.
Implement standard querying patterns using Spring Data's various modules for different data sources.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Diving into Spring Data
02 - Beautiful code
03 - What you should know
04 - Using GitHub Codespaces

1. Spring Data Umbrella Project

05 - Mission and modules
06 - Java Jakarta Persistence API

2. Introduction to Spring Data JPA

07 - Spring Boot Starter data JPA
08 - Externalize schema declaration
09 - Spring Data CRUDRepository and JpaRepository
10 - Challenge - Fix SimpleDBCrudTest syntax errors
11 - Solution - Fix SimpleDBCrudTest syntax errors
12 - Spring Data JPA magic

3. Spring Data JPA Query Methods

13 - Property expression query methods
14 - Query method clauses with property expressions
15 - @Query annotation
16 - Challenge - Refactor three query methods
17 - Solution - Refactor three query methods
18 - Paging and sorting

4. Dynamic Spring Data JPA Queries

19 - Spring Data Specifications
20 - QueryDSL
21 - Query by Example
22 - Challenge - Query by Example
23 - Solution - Query by Example
24 - Is it beautiful

5. RESTful Microservice with a Real Database

25 - Spring Data REST
26 - Connect to remote database
27 - Embedded database for testing

6. More Spring Data Features

28 - Spring Boot Docker Compose for MongoDB
29 - Spring Data MongoDB
30 - Spring Data reactive repositories
31 - More data source support and features

Conclusion

32 - Make more beautiful code

Spring Data 3

Authors

Mary Ellen Bowman