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basic SQL • basic Java • basic JSON • Spring Data JPA Repositories • HTTP and REST basics • basic JUnit 5, SpringTest and TestContainers
skills learned
Add query result pagination • Implement queries with JPQL aggregate functions. Import csv files into a database in a transaction, use domain events to send messages to a JMS Queue.
Potito Coluccelli
1 week · 8-10 hours per week · BEGINNER
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BestInsurance has a rapidly growing customer base and happy front-office employees, thanks to a newly built API that lets customers subscribe to policies and lets front-office employees narrow their searches with custom filters. But the back-office staff is unhappy with the high latency of the user interface. As a backend developer, you’ll solve this problem by adding pagination with Spring Data JPA, preventing the page from loading all the customer data at once. You’ll use JPQL to add aggregate functions that return information the back office needs, such as revenue and customer count by state. You’ll implement a REST service for uploading policy subscription data provided in CSV format and importing it into your database. You’ll also leverage domain events for sending messages when subscriptions are saved, updated, or deleted. When you’re done, you’ll know how to add REST API services, and the back-office employees will thank you for making their jobs easier!

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Potito Coluccelli

Potito Coluccelli is a senior software engineer and team leader at Econocom in Italy, where he works on service-oriented architecture design and implementation as well as supporting customers as they transition from monolithic to microservice architectures. Previously he worked as a middleware consultant at Red Hat and supported companies in Italy and the EU with JEE application design, development, maintenance, and testing. With his team, he created a trade surveillance tool for Commodity Markets that’s been adopted by major energy providers in Italy.

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This liveProject is for beginner and intermediate Java programmers interested in learning how to add useful REST services, such as pagination and aggregate functions, that improve user experience. To begin these liveProjects you’ll need to be familiar with the following:

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  • Basic knowledge of the REST paradigm and HTTP
  • Implement Spring Data JPA Repository
  • Implement JUnit test cases with SpringTest, MockMvc and TestContainers

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