JPA

In this tutorial, you will learn what the @Respository annotation is and how to use it in your Spring Boot applications. @Repository is a Spring annotation that indicates that the decorated class is a repository. A repository is a mechanism for encapsulating storage, retrieval, and search behaviour which emulates a collection of objects. How to…

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In this article, we will learn about Many-to-Many relationships in JPA and how to implement them in a Spring Boot application. Let’s get started! @ManytoMany annotation A many-to-many relationship occurs when multiple records in one table are associated with multiple records in another table. The @ManyToMany annotation is used to define a many-valued association with…

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to call stored procedures in a Spring Boot RESTful API project that uses Spring Data JPA. Using a stored procedure to execute parts of the application logic in the database is a widely used approach in huge, data-heavy applications. A stored procedure is a group of predefined SQL…

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to use specification and predicate in Spring Data JPA using the Spring Boot RESTful API project. Spring Data JPA Specifications allow us to create dynamic database queries by using the JPA Criteria API. It defines a specification as a predicate over an entity. Spring has a wrapper around…

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This short tutorial will teach you how to roll back a database change using @Transactional annotation in your RESTful Web Service built with Spring Boot and JPA. Rollback with @Transactional Annotation Sometimes if an error occurs in our RESTful Web Service, we want to roll back the changes made. For changes to be rolled back…

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This tutorial will teach you how to create a JPA Native SQL Query to only select information from specific columns. You can find many more Spring Data JPA-related tutorials on this site. Some of the most popular tutorials are: One-to-One Mapping Hibernate/JPA Using Spring Boot and MySQL One-to-Many Mapping Hibernate/JPA Using Spring Boot and MySQL…

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In this tutorial, I will share how to make the Spring Boot application display Hibernate SQL Queries. If you are learning about Hibernate, you might also be interested in the following tutorials: One-to-One Mapping Hibernate/JPA Using Spring Boot and MySQL One-to-Many Mapping Hibernate/JPA Using Spring Boot and MySQL Many-to-Many Relationship in Spring Boot Rest +JPA…

Read More Show Hibernate SQL Query in Spring Boot

This short Spring Data JPA tutorial will teach you how to write a Native UPDATE SQL query. Let’s assume you need to run the following SQL query: update users u set u.EMAIL_VERIFICATION_STATUS = ‘true’ where u.USER_ID = ‘5JwQBHd1mL73XEg8S2e2w4ITn9gOW4’ I assume you will not want to hardcode the values of EMAIL_VERIFICATION_STATUS and USER_ID into an SQL…

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to implement pagination in your RESTful Web Services application built with Spring Boot. The code example below will demonstrate how to implement pagination for the API endpoint that returns a list of users. I assume you already have your Spring Boot RESTful Web Service built, but if you…

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In this blog post, I will share how to create a very simple RESTful Spring Boot Web Service that uses Spring Data JPA to save information to a database. Our Web Service will accept HTTP Post requests with user details and then save these user details into MySQL Database using Spring Data JPA CrudRepository. For code…

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In this blog post, I am going to share with you how to configure Spring Data JPA in a Jersey 2 Container Deployable Web App. Spring Data JPA makes it much easier and more convenient to persist and read data from the database and when I needed to tie together Spring Data JPA and Jersey 2 Web…

Read More Configure Spring Data JPA in Jersey 2 JAX-RS App

With this blog post, I am going to share what I needed to do to make JPA work in my Jersey 2 Web Services App. I have created my Jersey 2 app using the following maven snippet: mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.glassfish.jersey.archetypes \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=jersey-quickstart-webapp -DarchetypeVersion=2.26 I then opened pom.xml and added a few new dependencies which I…

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