Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How it works...

Even though, by default, Spring Boot makes certain assumptions about the database configuration by examining the classpath for the presence of supported database drivers, it provides you with easy configuration options to tweak the database access via a set of exposed properties grouped under spring.datasource.

The things that we can configure are url, username, password, driver-class-name, and so on. If you want to consume the datasource from a JNDI location, where an outside container creates it, you can configure this using the spring.datasource.jndi-name property. The complete set of possible properties is fairly large, so we will not go into all of them. However, we will cover more options in Chapter 24, Application Testing ...