• Introduction
• How does Spring Data work?
• What is the role of Spring Data Commons?
• Mapping and conversion system
• Core mapping abstractions
• MappingContext
• EntityWriter, EntityReader & EntityConverter
• ConversionService
• CustomConversions
• Entity instantiation
• Storing type information
• Implementation patterns
• Repository abstraction
• Repository interfaces
• Web integration
• Building a store implementation
• Repository abstraction
• Create a *RepositoryFactory extending from RepositoryFactorySupport
• Create a Simple*Repository implementing CrudRepository or PagingAndSortingRepository
• Query methods
• Spring namespaces
• Transaction handling