Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

Initializing the database with Spring JDBC

If the application does not use JPA, or you don't want to depend on the Hibernate functionality explicitly, Spring offers you another way of getting the database set up, as long as the spring-boot-starter-jdbc dependency is present. So let's take a look at what we did to get it to work, as shown in the following list:

• The spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=none setting tells Hibernate not to do any automatic handling of the database if the Hibernate dependency also exists, as it does in our case. This setting is good practice for a production environment as you probably don't want to get all of your database tables wiped clean inadvertently. That would be one hell of a disaster, that's for sure!
• The ...