Introduction to RESTful Web Services

• Understanding the principles and concepts of REST
• Exploring the advantages of RESTful architecture

Introduction to Spring Boot

• Overview of Spring Boot and its features
• Setting up a Spring Boot project

Building RESTful APIs with Spring Boot

• Creating a basic REST controller
• Mapping HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) to controller methods
• Handling request parameters, headers, and path variables

Request and Response Handling

• Handling request and response data
• Working with request headers and query parameters
• Sending different types of responses (JSON, XML, etc.)

Error Handling and Exception Handling

• Handling and customizing error responses
• Global exception handling with @ControllerAdvice

Request Validation and Data Binding

• Validating request data with annotations
• Handling validation errors and returning appropriate responses
• Binding request data to DTOs (Data Transfer Objects)

Content Negotiation

• Supporting different media types (JSON, XML, etc.)
• Configuring message converters

Authentication and Authorization

• Securing REST endpoints with Spring Security
• Implementing authentication mechanisms (Basic, OAuth2, JWT)
• Configuring role-based and permission-based access control

Versioning and API Evolution

• Different approaches to versioning REST APIs
• URI versioning, request headers, and content negotiation
• Strategies for API evolution and backward compatibility

HATEOAS and Hypermedia

• Implementing HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State)
• Adding links and navigational capabilities to responses

Caching and Performance Optimization

• Enabling caching in Spring Boot applications
• Using caching annotations and cache configuration
• Performance optimization techniques

Testing RESTful APIs

• Unit testing REST controllers
• Integration testing with Spring Boot’s testing framework
• Using tools like Postman for API testing

Database Integration and Persistence

• Working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Using Spring Data JPA for database integration
• Implementing CRUD operations and querying data

Exception Handling and Error Reporting

• Creating custom exception classes for different error scenarios
• Implementing error response formats (JSON, XML, etc.)
• Providing meaningful error messages and details

API Documentation

• Generating API documentation using Swagger
• Annotating API endpoints with Swagger annotations
• Customizing Swagger UI and API metadata

File Upload and Download

• Handling file uploads in REST APIs
• Streaming and downloading files
• Handling multipart/form-data requests

Asynchronous Programming

• Implementing asynchronous REST endpoints
• Using CompletableFuture and DeferredResult
• Non-blocking I/O with Spring WebFlux

WebSocket and Real-Time Communication

• Building real-time communication using WebSocket
• Handling WebSocket messages and events
• Broadcasting messages to multiple clients

Interacting with External APIs

• Consuming RESTful APIs with RestTemplate or WebClient
• Handling authentication and error scenarios

Security Best Practices

• Implementing secure RESTful APIs
• Protecting against common security vulnerabilities
• Secure communication with HTTPS

Deployment and Continuous Integration

• Packaging and deploying a Spring Boot application
• Setting up continuous integration and automated deployments

Best Practices and Performance Optimization

• Applying best practices for designing RESTful

Pagination and Sorting

• Implementing pagination and sorting for large result sets
• Handling requests for specific page sizes and ordering

Hystrix and Circuit Breaker Pattern

• Implementing fault tolerance and resilience in RESTful APIs
• Using Hystrix for circuit breaking and fallback mechanisms

API Security and OAuth 2.0

• Implementing OAuth 2.0 for authentication and authorization
• Integrating with popular identity providers (e.g., Google, Facebook)

API Versioning Strategies

• Exploring additional API versioning strategies (e.g., header-based, content negotiation)
• Handling versioning in complex scenarios

Performance Monitoring and Metrics

• Integrating monitoring tools (e.g., Micrometer, Prometheus) for collecting performance metrics
• Analyzing and visualizing API performance data

API Gateway and Microservices

• Implementing an API gateway for managing and routing requests
• Understanding the role of RESTful APIs in a microservices architecture

Event-Driven Architecture with Spring Boot

• Building event-driven systems using Spring Boot and messaging frameworks (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Handling asynchronous communication and event-driven workflows

Hypermedia Formats (e.g., HAL, JSON-LD)

• Exploring alternative hypermedia formats for REST APIs
• Implementing hypermedia-driven APIs using HAL or JSON-LD

Load Testing and Performance Tuning

• Conducting load tests to analyze the performance of RESTful APIs
• Identifying bottlenecks and optimizing API performance

API Governance and Documentation Tools

• Exploring tools for API governance and lifecycle management
• Documenting APIs using tools like OpenAPI (formerly Swagger) or RAML