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Learning Spring Boot 4 - Fourth Edition
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Learning Spring Boot 4 - Fourth Edition

by Wanderson Xesquevixos, Ranga Rao Karanam, Magnus Larsson, Greg L. Turnquist
July 2026
Intermediate
306 pages
3h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Querying for Data with Spring Boot

In the previous chapter, we learned how Spring Boot manages embedded servlet containers, automatically registers our web controllers, provides JSON serialization/deserialization, eases the creation and versioning of APIs, and lastly, how to write null-safe applications.

While these capabilities define how applications interact with clients, they are only part of the picture. Every meaningful application also needs to persist, query, and manage data. For that reason, this chapter focuses on some of the most powerful and practical ways to store and retrieve data with Spring Boot.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Adding Spring Data to an existing Spring Boot application
  • DTOs, entities, and ...
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