Short Coding Course — South Africa
REST APIs, JPA, Spring Security & Microservices
Spring Boot is the standard for enterprise Java development. This course takes Java developers through the complete Spring ecosystem: building production-grade REST APIs, data persistence with JPA/Hibernate, securing applications with Spring Security, and an introduction to microservices with Spring Cloud.
Spring Initializr, project structure, auto-configuration, application.properties and Actuator.
@RestController, @GetMapping/PostMapping/PutMapping/DeleteMapping, request/response bodies.
Entities, repositories, JPQL queries, relationships (OneToMany, ManyToMany) and H2/MySQL.
@Valid, Bean Validation, @ControllerAdvice and consistent error responses.
Authentication, authorisation, JWT-based stateless APIs and role-based access control.
Separation of concerns, mapping between entities and DTOs using ModelMapper.
Unit tests for services, integration tests for controllers with MockMvc.
@Cacheable with Redis, @Async and scheduled tasks.
Service discovery (Eureka), API Gateway, config server and Feign clients.
Containerise your Spring Boot app, docker-compose and deployment to the cloud.
All courses are taught by experienced bootcamp instructors of the Code College team — with a total of 30+ years of industry experience in the team.
You write code from day one. Every concept is reinforced with real exercises and a practical project you keep.
Attend in-person at our Woodmead (JHB) campus or join 100% online from anywhere.
Receive a Code College certificate on completion — recognised by employers across South Africa.
Book the Spring Boot & Spring Framework Course today — full-time (5 days) or part-time. Johannesburg, Cape Town and online.