Following the Lynda course "Build your first Spring Data Repository with Spring Data JPA"
- Creating a project with Spring Initializr
- Examining the Spring Boot skeleton project with Spring Data JPA
- Creating an embedded database for Spring Boot development and testing
- Building a service abstraction
- Using the IoC paradigm in Spring to develop a service layer
- Building a controller
- Testing a controller MockMvc
- Exposing a service layer through REST
Overall, a pretty good, broad introduction to Spring Boot!