[NEW] Spring Boot 4, Spring Framework 7: Beginner to Guru (Udemy.com)

Many parts of the course haven't been updated to reflect Spring Boot 4+. That leads to a lot of extra work, which is fine for an experienced developer like me but can be a bit of a pain for someone that is new to the field

The scope of the content described by the author is very broad and there was a lot of things I learned. The concepts are described precisely with practical code examples and demos. I strongly recommend this training and I am looking forward to watching other trainings by this tutor.

El curso ofrece una ruta muy completa para comprender el ecosistema de Spring desde los fundamentos hasta conceptos más avanzados. La estructura es progresiva y permite entender bien cómo encajan Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA y Spring Boot dentro de una arquitectura real. Uno de los puntos más valiosos es el enfoque práctico. A través de ejemplos y proyectos, se refuerzan conceptos como inyección de dependencias, configuración de beans, creación de APIs REST y manejo de persistencia con bases de datos. Esto ayuda a consolidar la teoría con implementación real. También destaca la claridad en la explicación de conceptos complejos como el ciclo de vida de los beans, el uso de anotaciones y la configuración automática de Spring Boot, lo cual facilita mucho la curva de aprendizaje. Como mejora, el contenido puede sentirse extenso en algunos módulos si ya se tiene experiencia previa en Spring, pero sigue siendo útil como referencia estructurada. En general, es un curso recomendable tanto para principiantes como para desarrolladores que buscan fortalecer y formalizar su conocimiento en Spring con buenas prácticas y una visión más profesional del framework.

The course covers a lot of important and valuable topics, such as Spring Boot, Spring Data, REST, and WebFlux with both relational and NoSQL databases. I found Spring Security especially interesting. However, much like other areas in the course, it often lacked the depth and best practices needed to fully understand and apply the concepts. As a result, I had to supplement my learning with external YouTube tutorials. Another point that caused some confusion was the redundancy; several topics were repeated at least twice. It felt a bit like a compilation of different independent courses mixed together (specifically regarding Microservices, Docker, Compose, and Kubernetes)! I hope the instructor reviews these structural and content depth issues to improve the overall flow and value of the course.

I enjoyed the course very much. Needs a little updating for Spring Boot 4, Spring 7. The main issue I had was getting the Kafka configuration to work. I had to create a KafkaConfig class and create ProducerFactory bean for kafkaTemplate to work. I created a KafkaTemplate bean to use the producerFactory bean. Likewise I had to create a ConsumerFactory bean to be used in a ConcurrentKafkaListernerContainerFactory bean. I also had to create a JacksonConfig to use PagedModel instead of PageImpl for Paged lists. I think adding a section on adding Helm charts to the beer microservices would make this course "complete".

Great course but quite often there are problems with deprecated functions being called and stuff not working as its based on too old libraries. I am using VSCode not IntelliJ, so maybe would be easier with IntelliJ. Upgrading to newer spring boot version has proven to be quite difficult in some cases

Coming from a beginner-intermediate C# and .NET background, I find this course gives a very good introduction to Java and Spring. But after getting through part 10 I find myself missing the rewarding feeling of running an application and seeing it do something, however small or pointless. The early course material places a lot of emphasis on writing and running tests as a way of checking if things work, which is good to practice. You can also use Postman to test your API. But it gets boring after a while, to be honest. For a future iteration I would like the simplest user interface to be included earlier, just to allow students to play around and interact with their little creation. Even a simple consol input/output type of thing would be welcome. All that said, the course is very good. If you want to learn Spring Boot, take it!

This is an excellent course and one of the most comprehensive on the Udemy platform. However, I’m giving it 4 stars because it doesn’t cover a fundamental aspect of Spring, which is the ability to write native SQL queries using JPQL. This is quite a significant omission for those who aim to become experts in the framework. Additionally, once an interesting project like the Gateway is converted from Maven to Gradle by experimenting with its plugin, the rest of that part of the course should be consistently completed using the chosen build system. Personally, this wasn’t a problem — on the contrary, it became a challenge and an opportunity to further learn the tool I prefer most for building Java projects. However, for others who may not feel the same way, this could represent a noticeable slowdown.

I appreciate the breadth of knowledge that the course provides. I would have appreciate some more depth on repositories since in the real world repository looks are not simple and would need more than inferring by the name of the repository method.

i really enjoy john's courses... his teaching style suites my learning style. he makes the content easy to understand and backs it up with decent real world-ish examples. i do really want to open my own brewery, but fear i'd drink away all the profits. moving on to his testing course next