Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

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In this recipe, we actually explored two ways of achieving the same thing, and this is quite common when you are living in the Spring ecosystem. Depending on the components that are used, whether it's a plain Spring JDBC, Spring JPA with Hibernate, or the Flyway or Liquibase migrations, the approach of populating and initializing the database differs but the end result remains pretty much the same.

Both Flyway and Liquibase are frameworks that provide incremental database migration capabilities. This comes in very handy when one wants to maintain the incremental log of the database changes in a programmatic, describable fashion with the ability to quickly put the database in a desired state for a particular version. While ...