Working with Spring Data JPA and MySQL

In this chapter, we will continue our journey toward working with data in Spring. As you already know, the API we defined does not persist or read from any real data source. We will take care of this by demonstrating Spring's powerful data features. We will use Spring Data JPA and MySQL as our database.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Introducing Spring Data JPA
• Installing MySQL
• CRUD operations
• Creating database queries