Introducing Spring Data JPA

Spring Data JPA is a part of Spring Data. Spring Data is much bigger than Spring Data JPA, so we will start by explaining it. Spring Data, as Spring-based programming, provides us with mechanisms for misc underlying data storage.

Thanks to Spring Data, we can utilize different data storage options. We can access different relational or non-relational databases. In this book, we will be focusing on a MySQL database.As a parent, Spring contains multiple sub-projects; one of them is Spring Data JPA.

What does Spring Data provide?

Let's highlight some of the most important features that Spring Data provides:

• Repository and custom object-mapping abstractions
• Derivation of dynamic queries from the...