Building Production-Ready REST APIs with Spring Boot
Transform your Spring Boot expertise and learn to create powerful, scalable REST APIs. This comprehensive course provides hands-on experience with industry best practices and cutting-edge techniques. You'll develop the skills to build enterprise-grade APIs that stand up to real-world demands.
Most Spring Boot tutorials teach you how to build a todo list. Then you're supposed to figure out production systems on your own. This Spring Boot REST API course takes a different approach. You'll build an event management system from scratch—the kind of API companies actually deploy. State machines, search with pagination, multi-layer validation, proper error handling. Everything that separates a portfolio project from production code.
By the end, you'll have working code you can deploy, show in interviews, or expand into your own projects. More importantly, you'll understand the architectural decisions behind it.
What you'll actually learn:
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Production-Ready Development - Simple CRUD tutorials skip the hard parts. This Spring Boot REST API course doesn't. You'll implement state transitions between draft, published, cancelled, full, and completed statuses. You'll enforce business rules at multiple layers. You'll handle errors the way production systems do—with global exception handlers and meaningful HTTP status codes.
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Real Event Management System - Conference platforms, ticketing services, scheduling apps—they all manage similar state transitions and validation rules. This course explores Spring Boot with Java through a domain that mirrors real systems. The patterns transfer directly to e-commerce, booking platforms, or any business that manages resources with lifecycle states.
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Hands-on REST API Development with Spring Boot - Every module puts code in your editor. You'll debug validation failures. You'll fix query problems. You'll implement business logic that actually enforces rules. This isn't about watching someone else code. You'll make mistakes and figure out why your validation rejected that request or why your query returned nothing.
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Enterprise Architecture Patterns - MVC structure, service layers, repository patterns, DTOs separating your API contract from domain models, MapStruct handling transformations. This Spring Boot REST API course teaches the architecture decisions that let systems scale beyond the initial prototype.
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Advanced Query Capabilities - Keyword search across multiple fields. Date range filtering. Pagination with metadata. Custom JPA queries that perform well. Administrative operations with proper business rule enforcement. The database operations tutorials skip because they're complex.
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Professional Development Workflow - Spring profiles for different environments. H2 for rapid development. Project structure that stays maintainable as it grows. APIs you can actually deploy and talk about intelligently in technical interviews.
Who should take this course:
Java developers with solid fundamentals in classes, objects, and basic Spring concepts who want backend specialization. Full-stack developers who know frontend work but need structured backend training. Self-taught programmers tired of scattered tutorials who want to understand how to build a complete REST API with proper patterns. Career switchers with Java knowledge preparing for backend positions. Students building portfolio projects that demonstrate real capability, not toy examples. Professional developers switching from other frameworks to Spring Boot. Anyone preparing for backend interviews who needs hands-on REST API experience.
Not right for you if you're brand new to Java. Get those fundamentals first—variables, loops, objects, basic collections. Then come back ready to build production systems.
Duration: ~2 hours
Learning Objective: Understand REST architectural principles and design patterns for building scalable, maintainable
APIs. Master HTTP method semantics, resource naming conventions, and stateless communication patterns that form the
foundation of professional Spring Boot REST API development.
| Unit | Lesson | What You'll Learn |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | REST Architectural Principles | Understand stateless communication, resource-oriented design, and REST constraints for scalable API architecture |
| 2 | HTTP Methods and Their Appropriate Usage in Event Management Systems | Master GET, POST, PUT, DELETE semantics and apply proper HTTP methods for each operation type |
| 3 | Resource Naming Conventions | Design clean, intuitive API endpoints following industry standards and URL structure best practices |
Duration: ~6 hours
Learning Objective: Set up and configure Spring Boot projects with proper database integration. Master Spring Data JPA
for entity modeling, create repositories for database operations, configure environment-specific profiles, and build the
complete data layer for the event management system.
| Unit | Lesson | What You'll Learn |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Creating a Spring Boot project using Spring Initializer | Initialize Spring Boot projects with correct dependencies, project structure, and configuration setup |
| 2 | Creating Spring Profiles for Environment-Specific Configuration | Configure development, testing, and production environments using Spring profiles and property files |
| 3 | Setting Up H2 Database | Integrate H2 in-memory database for rapid development, testing, and local environment setup |
| 4 | Building Event Data Models with Spring Boot JPA | Design JPA entities that model business domain concepts with annotations, relationships, and constraints |
| 5 | Creating Comprehensive Event Repository with Spring Data JPA | Build repository interfaces with custom queries, derived query methods, and CRUD operations |
| 6 | Implementing Test Data for Event Management | Create seed data, initialization scripts, and test fixtures for development and testing |
| 7 | Accessing and Querying the H2 Database in Spring Boot | Connect to H2 console, execute queries, and verify data during development cycles |
Duration: ~4 hours
Learning Objective: Master Spring Boot MVC architecture and implement core application patterns. Build custom exception
handling, separate API contracts from domain models using DTOs, and automate object mapping with MapStruct to create a
maintainable, layered application structure.
| Unit | Lesson | What You'll Learn |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spring Boot MVC Architecture: A Deep Dive | Understand controller-service-repository pattern, dependency injection, and proper layer separation |
| 2 | Custom Exception Handling in Spring Boot Applications | Implement global exception handlers, return appropriate HTTP status codes, and provide actionable error messages |
| 3 | Streamlining Conference Data with Data Transfer Objects | Separate API contracts from domain models using DTOs and prevent exposing internal structure |
| 4 | Object Mapping with MapStruct | Eliminate boilerplate transformation code with MapStruct annotations and automated mapping generation |
Duration: ~8 hours
Learning Objective: Implement complete CRUD operations with advanced features including search, filtering, pagination,
and validation. Build production-ready endpoints that handle path parameters, query strings, request bodies, and enforce
business rules at multiple layers.
| Unit | Lesson | What You'll Learn |
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| 1 | Implementing Get All Events Endpoint | Create GET endpoints that return collections, handle empty results, and structure proper JSON responses |
| 2 | Implementing Get Single Event Endpoint | Retrieve individual resources by ID, handle not found scenarios, and return appropriate status codes |
| 3 | Get Events by Type using URL Parameters | Filter resources using query parameters and implement flexible endpoint querying capabilities |
| 4 | Find Events By Date Range And Types with Pagination | Implement complex queries with multiple filters, paginate large result sets, and return metadata |
| 5 | Search Events By Keyword | Build full-text search across multiple fields and create user-friendly query interfaces |
| 6 | Implementing Event Creation Endpoint with Validation | Accept POST requests, validate required fields and constraints, prevent duplicates, and return created resources |
| 7 | Implementing Event Update Functionality | Handle PUT requests, validate updates, enforce business rules, and manage resource state transitions |
| 8 | Implementing Delete Event Functionality | Implement DELETE operations, handle cascade effects, and return appropriate responses for removal operations |
Duration: ~1 hour
Learning Objective: Review the complete REST API implementation, understand next steps for continued learning, and
explore paths for expanding the event management system with additional features and deployment strategies.
| Unit | Lesson | What You'll Learn |
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| 1 | What's Next? | Review the production patterns you built, understand how event management architecture transfers to e-commerce, booking systems, and enterprise platforms, and identify which skills employers value most in backend interviews |
You'll build an event management REST API from scratch. REST principles, Spring Boot configuration, JPA entities, repository patterns, MVC architecture, DTOs, MapStruct for object mapping. Complete CRUD with search, filtering, and pagination. Multi-layer validation that actually prevents bad data. Global exception handling that returns useful error messages. The curriculum covers how to build a complete REST API from start to finish with Spring Boot—not just isolated features.
Every module puts code in your editor. You'll implement endpoints, debug why your validation rejected a request, fix queries that return nothing, enforce business logic. This is hands-on REST API development with Spring Boot where you solve the problems yourself. You'll make mistakes. That's the point. Passive video watching doesn't teach you to debug production issues.
You need Java fundamentals—classes, objects, collections, basic OOP. Spring concepts help but aren't required. This course explores Spring Boot with Java assuming you know Java syntax but teaches Spring Boot patterns from the ground up. Dependency injection, component scanning, Spring Data repositories—you'll learn them by building the API.
YouTube gives you scattered videos. Maybe someone's todo list, maybe someone's blog API, different Spring Boot versions, inconsistent quality. This Spring Boot REST API course builds one complete system across 5 modules. Proper architecture from the start. Production patterns—state machines, business rule enforcement, pagination—that basic tutorials skip. The structure matters. You're not piecing together fragments. You're building a cohesive API you can actually deploy.
An event management REST API handling the full lifecycle. Draft creation, publication, cancellation, completion. State transitions with validation. Search by status, date ranges, keywords—all paginated. Field validation, business rule validation, database constraint validation. Global exception handling with proper HTTP codes. Controller-service-repository architecture with DTOs. The kind of system conference platforms and ticketing services actually run.
21 hours of content across 5 modules. Most students finish in 3-4 weeks at 6-8 hours per week. You can push harder—2-3 weeks at 10-15 hours weekly. Or go slower with evening sessions over 6-8 weeks. Self-paced means you control the schedule.
You'll have the core skills—REST API design, Spring Boot structure, JPA operations, validation strategies, exception handling, DTOs, MVC architecture, query optimization. That's the foundation. To be competitive, build 2-3 more portfolio projects expanding these patterns. Learn Spring Security for authentication. Practice algorithms for technical screens. Deploy your APIs to AWS or Heroku. This course gives you the foundation. Your portfolio proves you can apply it.
Absolutely. The event management API is deployable. Show it in interviews. Expand it with authentication or payment processing. Deploy to cloud platforms. Talk through your architectural decisions. It's not a toy project. It demonstrates you understand production patterns—state management, validation, search, proper error handling. Employers want to see you can build systems, not just follow tutorials.
Spring Boot 3.x, Java 17 or later, Spring Data JPA, H2 for development, MapStruct for mapping, Maven for dependencies, RESTful principles. Industry-standard technologies. The versions matter less than the patterns—controller-service-repository architecture, DTO separation, repository interfaces, validation layers. Those patterns work across Spring Boot versions.
Everything's free. Java Development Kit from Oracle or OpenJDK. IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition or any Java IDE. Maven integrated with most IDEs. H2 database as a Spring Boot dependency. Zero cost for tools.
Bootcamps charge thousands. This Spring Boot REST API course covers the same REST API and Spring Boot patterns for less. Bootcamps offer career services, live instruction, peer networking. If you're self-motivated and have Java fundamentals, you can learn production-ready REST API development here without the bootcamp price tag.
Spring Security for authentication and authorization. Microservices with Spring Cloud. Testing with JUnit and MockMvc. Docker containerization. Message queues with RabbitMQ or Kafka. Redis for caching. The patterns you learn here—controller-service-repository, DTOs, validation, exception handling—form the foundation for all of it. Master how to build a complete REST API from start to finish with Spring Boot, then expand into these advanced topics.
Yes. Spring Boot simplifies Spring configuration significantly. This Spring Boot REST API course teaches Spring Boot directly. You'll learn dependency injection, component scanning, Spring concepts by building the API. Prior Spring exposure helps but isn't required. Spring Boot's auto-configuration handles most setup—you focus on application logic.
The course focuses on REST API implementation and architecture. You'll test endpoints manually with Postman or curl during development. For comprehensive automated testing—JUnit, MockMvc, integration tests—that's a different skillset. The solid foundation here makes learning testing straightforward afterward. You need to understand what you're testing before you write test suites.
State management, validation, search, CRUD operations—they're universal. E-commerce managing orders and inventory. Booking platforms handling reservations. Social platforms with posts and interactions. Ticketing systems managing assignments. Scheduling apps coordinating appointments. The patterns transfer directly. Event lifecycle mirrors order lifecycle, ticket lifecycle, reservation lifecycle. Different domain, same architectural patterns.
This course teaches one complete REST API. Microservices split systems into multiple independent services communicating via REST. You'll have the REST API skills. For microservices, you need service discovery with Eureka, API gateways with Spring Cloud Gateway, inter-service communication patterns, distributed system concepts. This course gives you the REST foundation those architectures require. Build one API well before splitting into many.
The course builds the REST API locally with proper architecture. You'll have a deployable JAR ready for any environment. Actual deployment to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Heroku, Azure takes minimal additional configuration. The final module discusses deployment considerations. Most cloud platforms accept Spring Boot JARs directly.
Spring Boot 3.x with Java 17 or later. Current as of 2026. Spring Boot's fundamental patterns stay stable across versions. Controllers, services, repositories, JPA, validation—they work the same way. Even as new Spring Boot versions release, the architecture and REST principles taught here continue to apply.
Basic tutorials show simple endpoints that save and retrieve data. This Spring Boot REST API course teaches production patterns—state machines with business rule enforcement, queries with search, filtering, and pagination, multi-layer validation with error messages users can act on, global exception handling with proper HTTP codes, clean architecture with separated concerns, MapStruct eliminating transformation boilerplate. You learn how to build a complete REST API, not just wire up database operations.
Module 1 covers REST principles deeply. Stateless communication, resource-oriented design, HTTP method semantics, proper status codes. You'll understand the why behind REST design, not just the how. Every endpoint reinforces these principles. You'll know when to use GET vs POST, when to return 201 vs 200, why PUT should be idempotent. Theory backed by implementation.
If you know Node.js/Express, Django, Rails, ASP.NET, you already understand backend concepts. You'll appreciate Spring Boot's dependency injection, configuration, and persistence handling. REST principles transfer directly. You'll learn Spring Boot patterns quickly because the concepts are familiar. The hands-on REST API development with Spring Boot approach lets you compare frameworks and understand Spring Boot's architectural decisions.
Controller-service-repository architecture, DTOs separating contracts from models, global exception handling, multi-layer validation, JPA repositories, MapStruct—standard in professional Spring Boot applications. Companies building REST APIs with Spring Boot follow these patterns. The event management domain mirrors real systems. Conference platforms, ticketing services, scheduling apps—they all manage similar state transitions and validation.
Enroll and start Module 1 on REST API Design Principles. Install Java JDK 17 or later and IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition. Module 2 walks through creating your first Spring Boot project with Spring Initializer. Follow lessons sequentially. Write every line yourself. Debug when things break. That's how you learn to build production-ready REST APIs.
Last Updated: January 30, 2026