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How to configure your Spring application with Simple CRUD configuration with Spring Data-JPA.

1. Add Spring Data-JPA to project configuration. In your Maven pom.xml file

   <dependency>
   <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
   <version>1.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
  

2. Configure JPA Entity

   ...
 
@Entity
public class Product {
 
  @Id
  @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
  @Column(name = "id")
  private Long id;
 
  @NotNull
  @Column(unique = true)
  private String productId;
 
  @NotNull
  private Integer quantity;
 
  ...
}
  

3. Configure Typed Repository Interface

Spring Data JPA will create the beans for us.

   package com.gordondickens.myapp.repository;
 
import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;
import com.gordondickens.myapp.entity.Product;
 
public interface ProductRepository
   extends CrudRepository<Product, Long> {}
  

4. Configure the application context

Note: this example uses Hibernate and HSQL

   <!-- Directory to scan for repository classes -->
<jpa:repositories
   base-package="com.gordondickens.myapp.repository" />
 
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager"
  id="transactionManager">
  <property name="entityManagerFactory"
      ref="entityManagerFactory" />
  <property name="jpaDialect">
    <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaDialect" />
  </property>
</bean>
 
<bean id="entityManagerFactory"
  class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
  <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
  <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
    <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
      <property name="generateDdl" value="true" />
      <property name="database" value="HSQL" />
    </bean>
  </property>
</bean>
  

5. Inject the Repository

In our service class & tests we use the repository to execute our crud methods. Repository Methods: count(), exists(), delete(), deleteAll(), findOne(), findAll(), save().

   public class ProductServiceImpl extends ProductService {
 
   @Autowired
   ProductRepository productRepository;
 
  ...
}
  

Summary

The Spring Data project abstracts away basic data management concepts. In addition to support for traditional relational methodologies, Spring Data provides support for NoSQL Graph, Key-Value and Map-Reduce types. As we saw in the above example configuring CRUD style applications is fairly trivial and Spring provides a convenient configuration for the typical cookie cutter code.

Click here to see my other blog which lists the annotations in “Spring Data-Commons” and “Spring Data-JPA”.

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Simpler JPA with Spring Data-JPA

1. Add Spring Data-JPA to project configuration. In your Maven pom.xml file

2. Configure JPA Entity

3. Configure Typed Repository Interface

4. Configure the application context

5. Inject the Repository

Summary

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Simpler JPA with Spring Data-JPA

Simpler JPA with Spring Data-JPA

1. Add Spring Data-JPA to project configuration. In your Maven pom.xml file

2. Configure JPA Entity

3. Configure Typed Repository Interface

4. Configure the application context

5. Inject the Repository

Summary

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