September 2015
Intermediate to advanced
206 pages
4h 45m
English
Earlier in the book, in Chapter 2, Configuring Web Applications, we manually added a few entries to the database in the StartupRunner's run(…) method. While doing so programmatically can be a quick and easy way to get something going very quickly, in the long run, it is not really a good idea to do so—especially when you are dealing with a large amount of data. It is also a good practice to separate the database preparations, changes, and other configurations from the rest of the running application code, even if it is setting up the test cases. Thankfully, Spring has provided you with the support to make this task fairly easy and straightforward to solve.
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