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Spring MVC Cookbook

You're reading from   Spring MVC Cookbook Over 40 recipes for creating cloud-ready Java web applications with Spring MVC

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
Last Updated in Feb 2025
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ISBN-13 9781784396411
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Setup Routine for an Enterprise Spring Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Designing a Microservice Architecture with Spring MVC 3. Working with Java Persistence and Entities 4. Building a REST API for a Stateless Architecture 5. Authenticating with Spring MVC 6. Implementing HATEOAS 7. Developing CRUD Operations and Validations 8. Communicating Through WebSockets and STOMP 9. Testing and Troubleshooting Index

Configuring the Java Persistence API in Spring

Now that we have introduced JPA, its role, and the benefits of using Entities, we can now focus on how to configure our Spring application to handle them.

Getting ready

As we said earlier, the JPA is a specification. Choosing a persistence provider (Hibernate, OpenJPA, TopLink, and so on) or a database provider for an application won't be a commitment as long as they match the standards.

We will see that our JPA configuration in Spring is done by defining two beans: datasource and entityManagerFactory. Then, the optional Spring Data JPA library offers a JPA repository abstraction that is able to surprisingly simplify some database operations.

How to do it...

  1. From the Git Perspective in Eclipse, check out the latest version of the v3.x.x branch.
  2. As previously introduced, we have added a couple of beans to the Spring configuration file (in the core module) csmcore-config.xml:
    <jpa:repositories base-package="edu.zc.csm.core.daos" /...
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