Java, J2EE, and Spring Boot Interview Study Plan
Day Topics Subtopics
Day 1 Core Java Deep Dive Advanced OOP Principles; Design Patterns (Factory, Singleton, Observer,
Strategy); Memory Management and Garbage Collection; Serialization,
Cloning; Java 8, 11, and 17 Features (Functional Programming, Streams,
Records, Sealed Classes)
Day 2 Concurrency & Multithreading Thread Management and Executors; Fork/Join Framework; Advanced
Concurrency Utilities (Semaphore, Phaser, Exchanger); Parallel Streams;
CompletableFuture and Reactive Programming Concepts
Day 3 J2EE Core Concepts with Practical
Servlets
Implementation
and JSP Advanced; Session Management and Cookies;
JavaBeans and EJB Deep Dive; RESTful Web Services (with JAX-RS);
Asynchronous Communication (WebSockets, Server-Sent Events)
Day 4 Enterprise-Level J2EE FeaturesJPA and Hibernate Basics (Entity Lifecycle, Annotations, Relationships);
Advanced JPA (Criteria API, JPQL); CDI (Context and Dependency
Injection); JTA (Java Transaction API); Security: Authentication,
Authorization, Role-Based Access Control
Day 5 Spring Framework In-Depth (Core
Advanced
& MVC) IoC and Dependency Injection; Spring AOP (Aspect-Oriented
Programming); Transaction Management in Spring; Custom Annotations;
Spring MVC Advanced (Interceptors, Exception Handling, ResponseEntity)
Day 6 Spring Boot for Microservices Spring Boot Annotations Deep Dive; Microservices Architecture Principles;
Inter-service Communication (OpenFeign, RestTemplate, WebClient);
Service Discovery (Eureka); Circuit Breaker Pattern (Resilience4j)
Day 7 Spring Boot Advanced, Deployment,
Spring
& Mock
Boot Interview
Actuator (Monitoring, Custom Health Indicators); Security in
Microservices (JWT, OAuth2); Database Migrations with Flyway/Liquibase;
Docker Basics for Containerization; Mock Interview and Problem-Solving
Exercises
