Beginning Spring 5: From Novice to Professional

© Joseph B. Ottinger and Andrew Lombardi 2019

J. B. Ottinger, A. LombardiBeginning Spring 5https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4486-9_9

9. Persistence with Spring and Spring Data

Joseph B. Ottinger¹  and Andrew Lombardi²

(1)

YOUNGSVILLE, NC, USA

(2)

Laguna Beach, CA, USA

 

In Chapter 8 we finally stopped looking at configuration and presentation mechanisms, and we looked at accessing a relational database with JdbcTemplate. In this chapter, we’re going to look at accessing data again – with a Spring project called “Spring Data,” which can provide a mostly data-agnostic view of data access.

Spring Data unifies data access for Spring, providing common access to not only different databases but different APIs – like JPA (the Java Persistence API) and our old ...