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Java Full Stack Development

Core Java • Spring Boot • SQL • REST APIs • React.js

A comprehensive program covering front-end, back-end, databases, APIs, development tools, and full-stack application development.

⏱ 6 months (self-paced) 📊 Beginner to Advanced 🗣 English & Hindi 🏆 Certificate included

Course overview

Java Full Stack Development is a comprehensive program that takes you from programming fundamentals to building and deploying complete web applications.

You start with Core Java and object-oriented programming, move into databases and SQL, build the front end with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React.js, and create secure REST APIs with Spring Boot. Along the way you learn the development tools professionals use every day — Git, Maven, Postman and testing frameworks.

The program ends with a full-stack capstone project that connects a React front end to a Spring Boot back end and a MySQL database — a complete application you can add to your portfolio.

Course at a glance

Duration6 months (self-paced)
Difficulty levelBeginner to Advanced
FormatOnline · self-paced
LanguageEnglish & Hindi

What you will learn

  • Write clean, object-oriented programs in Core Java
  • Use Collections, Generics, Streams and exception handling
  • Design relational databases and write SQL queries
  • Connect Java applications to databases with JDBC and JPA
  • Build responsive front ends with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • Create component-based user interfaces with React.js
  • Develop REST APIs with Spring Boot
  • Secure applications with authentication and authorisation
  • Use Git, GitHub, Maven, Postman and JUnit in a real workflow
  • Plan, build and deploy a complete full-stack application

Course curriculum

9 modules · 54 lessons
Module 1: Programming Foundations & Core Java6 lessons
📖 Setting up the JDK and IDE 🔒
📖 How Java programs run: JVM, JRE and JDK 🔒
📖 Variables, data types and operators 🔒
📖 Conditional statements and loops 🔒
📖 Methods and arrays 🔒
📖 Strings and StringBuilder 🔒
Module 2: Object-Oriented Programming in Java6 lessons
📖 Classes and objects 🔒
📖 Constructors and encapsulation 🔒
📖 Inheritance and polymorphism 🔒
📖 Abstract classes and interfaces 🔒
📖 Packages and access modifiers 🔒
📖 Object class, equals() and hashCode() 🔒
Module 3: Advanced Java6 lessons
📖 Exception handling 🔒
📖 Collections Framework: List, Set and Map 🔒
📖 Generics 🔒
📖 Lambda expressions and the Stream API 🔒
📖 File handling and I/O 🔒
📖 Introduction to multithreading 🔒
Module 4: Databases & SQL6 lessons
📖 Relational database concepts and schema design 🔒
📖 SQL queries: SELECT, WHERE, ORDER BY 🔒
📖 JOINs, GROUP BY and aggregate functions 🔒
📖 Constraints, indexes and normalisation 🔒
📖 Transactions 🔒
📖 JDBC: connecting Java to MySQL 🔒
Module 5: Front-End Development6 lessons
📖 HTML5 page structure and semantic elements 🔒
📖 CSS3 styling, Flexbox and Grid 🔒
📖 Responsive design for all screen sizes 🔒
📖 JavaScript fundamentals 🔒
📖 DOM manipulation and events 🔒
📖 Asynchronous JavaScript and the Fetch API 🔒
Module 6: React.js for the Front End6 lessons
📖 Components, JSX and props 🔒
📖 State and event handling 🔒
📖 React Hooks 🔒
📖 Routing with React Router 🔒
📖 Forms and validation 🔒
📖 Consuming REST APIs in React 🔒
Module 7: Spring Boot & REST APIs6 lessons
📖 Spring core concepts: IoC and dependency injection 🔒
📖 Creating a Spring Boot project 🔒
📖 Building REST controllers 🔒
📖 Spring Data JPA and Hibernate 🔒
📖 Validation and global exception handling 🔒
📖 Spring Security and JWT authentication basics 🔒
Module 8: Development Tools & Professional Practices6 lessons
📖 Git and GitHub workflow 🔒
📖 Maven build and dependency management 🔒
📖 Unit testing with JUnit 🔒
📖 API testing with Postman 🔒
📖 Debugging and logging 🔒
📖 Writing clean, maintainable code 🔒
Module 9: Full-Stack Capstone & Deployment6 lessons
📖 Planning a full-stack application 🔒
📖 Connecting the React front end to the Spring Boot API 🔒
📖 End-to-end authentication flow 🔒
📖 Deploying the application 🔒
📖 Capstone project review 🔒
📖 Presenting your project in a portfolio 🔒

Practical projects

Student Management System

A console application in Core Java with JDBC and MySQL to add, search, update and report student records.

E-commerce Product API

A Spring Boot REST API with JPA, validation and pagination for a product catalogue.

Task Manager Web App

A responsive React front end with routing, forms and API integration.

Full-Stack Capstone Application

A complete application — for example a job board or course portal — with a React front end, Spring Boot back end, MySQL database and secure login.

Tools & software

Java (JDK 17 or later)IntelliJ IDEA / EclipseVisual Studio CodeMySQLSpring BootSpring Data JPA / HibernateSpring SecurityHTML5, CSS3, JavaScriptReact.jsGit & GitHubMavenPostmanJUnit

Who is this course for?

  • Students who want to become software developers
  • Graduates preparing for development roles
  • Working professionals moving into software development
  • Career changers starting from the basics
  • Freelancers who want to build complete web applications
  • Beginners with no prior coding experience

Career applications

The skills from this course can be applied to roles and projects such as:

  • Java Developer
  • Back-End Developer
  • Full-Stack Developer
  • REST API / Integration Developer
  • Building business web applications and internal tools
  • Freelance web application projects

Requirements

  • A laptop or desktop (Windows, macOS or Linux) with at least 8 GB RAM recommended
  • Basic computer skills — installing software, managing files
  • No prior programming experience required; we start from fundamentals
  • Time to practise regularly — coding improves with daily practice

Certificate

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Certificate of Completion

On successfully completing the course requirements — lessons, practical projects/assignments and assessments — you receive a Vector Tech Academy Certificate of Completion. Every certificate carries a unique certificate ID and a QR code that anyone (a client, an employer or an institute) can verify on our website. The certificate recognises that you completed this course and its projects; it is not a university degree or a government-recognised qualification.

Certificate terms →

Frequently asked questions

Do I need programming experience to join Java Full Stack Development?
No. The program starts with programming fundamentals and Core Java, then builds up step by step to full-stack development.
Which technologies are covered on the front end?
HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and React.js. You will connect your React front end to your own Spring Boot REST API.
Will I build a complete application?
Yes. The program ends with a full-stack capstone project that uses a React front end, a Spring Boot back end and a MySQL database.
Is the software used in this course free?
Yes. Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, VS Code, IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, Git and Postman are all free to download.

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