Milestone 2: Spring Core & Dependency Injection

🟨 Milestone 2: Spring Core & Dependency Injection

Welcome to the “Magic” of the Spring Framework. Here, we learn how to stop building objects manually and start letting Spring manage the complexity of our system.

📚 Slow-Paced Deep Dives

• Module 1: Spring Core & IoC (The Magic Hand): Letting Spring build and connect your objects.
• Module 2: Spring Boot Auto-Configuration (The Magic Wand): How Spring Boot sets up your app automatically.
• Module 3: Application Properties & Profiles (The Settings): Configuring your app for different environments.
• Module 4: Spring Bean Scopes (How many Objects?): Managing memory and sharing with Singletons.

🥅 Milestone Goals

1. Eliminate the new keyword for system components.
2. Use Setter and Constructor Injection to wire your app.
3. Manage different database settings for Dev and Prod using Profiles.
4. Understand the lifecycle of a Spring Bean.

Next Milestone

Now that your objects are connected, let’s learn how to save them to a database in Milestone 3: Data Persistence!

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