Spring Data JPA, part of the larger Spring Data family, makes it easy to easily implement JPA-based (Java Persistence API) repositories. It makes it easier to build Spring-powered …

Accessing Data with JPA This guide walks you through the process of building an application that uses Spring Data JPA to store and retrieve data in a relational database.

Spring Data JPA provides repository support for the Jakarta Persistence API (JPA). It eases development of applications with a consistent programming model that need to access JPA …

Getting Started An easy way to bootstrap setting up a working environment is to create a Spring-based project via start.spring.io or create a Spring project in Spring Tools.

Spring Data JPA takes the concept of a specification from Eric Evans' book, “Domain Driven Design”, following the same semantics and providing an API to define such specifications with …

You can use this option for full JPA capabilities in a Spring-based application environment. This includes web containers such as Tomcat, stand-alone applications, and integration tests with …

JPA Query Methods This section describes the various ways to create a query with Spring Data JPA.

JPA’s Criteria API lets you build queries programmatically. Spring Data JPA Specification provides a small, focused API to express predicates over entities and reuse them across …

This chapter points out the specialties for repository support for JPA. This builds on the core repository support explained in Working with Spring Data Repositories.

JPA specific support classes for the Spring Data mapping subsystem.