Final Exam: Spring Basics

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

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  Outline the model-view-controller design paradigm and how spring can help implement it for an application
  

  describe spring framework and recognize how it can help java developers
  

  recognize how spring boot can be used to simplify application development
  

  describe the features available in the spring framework to implement dependency injection
  

  recognize the concept of dependency injection and inversion of control
  

  create an applicationcontext instance to provision and inject beans
  

  set the properties of a bean using tags in an xml file
  

  set methods to run after bean construction and before their destruction
  

  recognize the different ways in which bean references can be set
  

  outline the limitations of autowiring
  

  create a class whose beans depend on several other beans
  

  apply autowiring to the beans created from a class using the autowired annotation
  

  apply the autowired annotation to the setters and constructors of a bean class
  

  recognize different ways to define pointcuts
  

  define pointcuts in your application that apply to methods in multiple classes
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  define a method that can be set as an aspect in a java application
  

  recognize what mechanisms are available to implement aspect-oriented programming in java
  

  create a custom annotation in order to explicitly define the methods that must match a pointcut
  

  configure a pointcut using the within designator in order to map to join points within a class or package
  

  create a project where aspects can be configured with an xml file
  

  set aspects to run before and after certain methods in your application using before and after advices
  

  execute aspects after a method has executed successfully or when it throws an exception
  

  use apache maven to create a java project that uses the hibernate framework
  

  apply hibernate apis to persist the data in java objects to a relational database
  

  use jpa configurations and annotations to define the entities in a java app and map them to a relational database
  

  configure entities in an application using jpa annotations
  

  define a class whose members will serve as the composite key for an entity in an application
  

  use the jpa apis to add new data to and retrieve existing data from a table in a relational database
  

  define entities in an application that have a one-to-one relationship with one another
  

  implement a one-to-many relationship between entities in an application using jpa