It's only been a few days only since we've released Spring Data JPA 1.0 GA which is the first major version of a Spring Data project shipping with an implementation of the repository abstraction inside our Spring Data Commons module. The repository abstraction consists of three major parts: defining a repository interface, exposing CRUD methods and adding query methods. Adding query methods was discussed in detail in the first Spring Data JPA blog post. But defining a repository interface and exposing CRUD methods triggered quite some questions in earlier blog posts. That's why will have a…
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In my last blog post I introduced the basic feature set of Spring Data JPA. In this post I'd like to dive into some more features and how they can help you simplify data access layer implementation even further. The Spring Data repository abstraction consists of an interface based programming model, some factory classes and a Spring namespace to easily configure the infrastructure. A typical repository interface looks something like this: The first method simply expects to find a single customer with a given email address, the second method returns all customers with a given lastname and…
Download | JavaDocs | Reference documentation (HTML) | Reference documentation (PDF) | Changelog
Download | JavaDocs | Reference documentation (HTML) | Reference documentation (PDF) | Changelog
As we have just released the first milestone of the Spring Data JPA project I’d like to give you a quick introduction into its features. As you probably know, the Spring framework provides support to build a JPA based data access layer. So what does Spring Data JPA add to this base support? To answer that question I'd like to start with the data access components for a sample domain implemented using plain JPA + Spring and point out areas that leave room for improvement. After we've done that I will refactor the implementations to use the Spring Data JPA features to address these problem…
