Chapter 2. Getting Started with Spring Data JPA
This chapter gives us the basic knowledge that we need to set up a web application project and manage our entities by using Spring Data JPA. In the course of this chapter, we will learn:
How to use Maven for downloading the required dependencies
How to use programmatic configuration for configuring the Spring application context
How to configure our web application to load the Spring application context by using programmatic configuration (without using
web.xml)How to implement CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) functions for an entity class with Spring Data JPA
