Employee-Management

1. Introduction to Spring Boot

Spring Boot simplifies application development with auto-configuration, embedded servers, and production-ready features.

2. Spring Boot Project Setup

Set up a Spring Boot project using Spring Initializr, IDE integration, and Maven/Gradle.

3. Spring Boot Annotations

Common annotations like @SpringBootApplication, @RestController, @Service, and @Repository help structure the application.

4. Dependency Injection

Uses Spring’s IoC container to inject dependencies and manage the lifecycle of beans.

5. Spring Data JPA

Provides an abstraction layer for database operations with repositories and entity mappings.

6. CRUD Operations

Create, Read, Update, and Delete API endpoints for managing data entities in the application.

7. Spring Security

Implements security features like authentication, authorization, and role-based access control (RBAC).

8. JWT Authentication

Secure REST APIs with JSON Web Tokens for user authentication and session management.

9. Spring Boot Actuator

Monitor and manage the application with health checks and metrics using Actuator endpoints.

10. Exception Handling

Custom exception handling using @ControllerAdvice and @ExceptionHandler.

11. Pagination and Sorting

Paginate and sort large datasets using Spring Data JPA’s built-in methods.

12. Validation

Data validation using annotations like @NotNull, @Email, and @Size for request objects.

13. File Upload

Add support for uploading and storing files using MultipartFile in Spring Boot.

14. API Documentation with Swagger

Generate interactive API documentation using Swagger UI and OpenAPI specifications.

15. Caching