Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5

Spring Data JPA

Spring Data JPA similarly allows us to build repositories like Spring Data JDBC does, but internally it uses a much more powerful JPA-based implementation. Spring Data JPA has excellent support for both Hibernate and EclipseLink. On the fly, Spring Data JPA generates JPA queries based on the method name convention, providing an implementation for the Generic DAO pattern and adding support for the Querydsl library (http://www.querydsl.com), which enables elegant, type-safe, Java-based queries.

Now, let's create a straightforward application to demonstrate the basics of Spring Data JPA. The following dependency gets all the required modules for a Spring Boot application:

compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa' ...