Spring 6: Design Patterns

1h 50mIntermediate2024-07-29

Authors

Frank P Moley III

Senior Principal Engineer at Catch&Release

Course details

Design patterns empower developers to be as effective as possible as they build software using known patterns for solving programs. Frameworks like Spring can make using these patterns even more powerful. In this course, software developer and architect Frank Moley highlights the most prevalent design patterns used by and in the Spring Framework. Learn about the core patterns in play, as well as how you can use them yourself, in the Spring framework. Explore a variety of creation patterns, structural patterns, and operational patterns. Plus, touch on other framework patterns like the observer pattern, the command pattern, the mediator pattern, and the interpreter pattern. With this knowledge of design patterns, you will be better equipped to develop with the Spring Framework for Java.

Skills covered

SpringSoftware DesignSoftware Development ToolsOpen SourceSoftware DevelopmentDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

Introduction

Solving problems with patterns in Spring
What you need to know
Creating a skeleton project

Design Patterns and Spring

What design patterns are
Gang of Four
The patterns of the Spring framework
Inversion of control - The core pattern

Creation Patterns in Spring

The factory pattern
Factory pattern in action
The builder pattern
The builder pattern in action
The singleton pattern
The singleton pattern in action
The prototype pattern
Prototype pattern in action

Structural Patterns in Spring

The adapter pattern
The adapter pattern in action
The decorator pattern
The decorator pattern in action
The proxy pattern

Operational Patterns in Spring

The repository pattern
The repository pattern in action
The template pattern
The model-view-controller pattern (MVC)
The MVC and template patterns in action

Other Framework Patterns in Spring

The observer pattern
The command pattern
The mediator pattern
The interpreter pattern

Conclusion

Next steps