Java Persistence with Spring Data and Hibernate

2 Starting a project

This chapter covers

• Introducing the Hibernate and Spring Data projects
• Developing a “Hello World” with Jakarta Persistence API, Hibernate, and Spring Data
• Examining the configuration and integration options

In this chapter, we’ll start with the Jakarta Persistence API (JPA), Hibernate, and Spring Data and work through a step-by-step example. We’ll look at the persistence APIs and see the benefits of using either standardized JPA, native Hibernate, or Spring Data.

We’ll begin with a tour through JPA, Hibernate, and Spring Data, looking at a straightforward “Hello World” application. JPA (Jakarta Persistence API, formerly Java Persistence API) is the specification defining an API that manages the persistence of objects and ...