Introducing Spring Framework 6: Learning and Building Java-based Applications With Spring

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F. Gutierrez, J. B. OttingerIntroducing Spring Framework 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8637-1_7

7. Letting Spring Build Your Data Access Objects

Felipe Gutierrez¹   and Joseph B. Ottinger²

(1)

Cary, NC, USA

(2)

YOUNGSVILLE, NC, USA

 

In Chapter 6, we saw how we can build a data access object using JDBC, configured with Spring. In this chapter, we’re going to take a look at Spring Data, which provides a bridge to other underlying persistence mechanisms – the Java Persistence API, in this case, using Hibernate as an underlying implementation.

Hibernate is an “object-relational mapper,”¹ meaning that it’s a library that maps data between the object and relational ...