In Chapter 1, you read about ways to persist the information in databases. Spring Data is the only one that offers the possibility to use relational and non-relational databases. Before discussing how the framework works behind the scenes, you need to know how Spring Framework works. In this chapter, you learn how to create a small project, which you use throughout this book.
According to the survey that Synk1 does each year, Spring is used by 58% of developers because it offers the possibility to create ...