Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How to do it...

1. First, we will remove the programmatic database population which we created in Chapter 21, Configuring Web Applications. So let's comment out the following code from the StartupRunner's run(...) method:

Author author = new Author("Alex", "Antonov"); 
author = authorRepository.save(author); 
Publisher publisher = new Publisher("Packt"); 
publisher = publisherRepository.save(publisher); 
Book book = new Book("978-1-78528-415-1", "Spring Boot Recipes", author, publisher); 
bookRepository.save(book); 

2. If we were to run our tests, they might fail if the test.h2.db file is missing because they expect the data to be in the database. We will populate the database by creating a Hibernate import.sql file in the src/main/resources directory ...