Pro Spring 6 with Kotlin: An In-depth Guide to Using Kotlin APIs in Spring Framework 6

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8. Spring with JPA

Peter Späth¹  , Iuliana Cosmina², Rob Harrop³ and Chris Schaefer⁴

(1)

Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

(2)

Edinburgh, UK

(3)

Reddish, UK

(4)

Venice, FL, USA

 

In Chapter 7, we discussed how to use Hibernate with Spring when implementing data access logic with the ORM approach. We demonstrated how to configure Hibernates SessionFactory in Spring’s configuration and how to use the Session interface for various data access operations. However, that is just one way Hibernate can be used. Another way of adopting Hibernate in a Spring application is to use Hibernate as a persistence ...