Summary

In this chapter, we started the discussion with Spring Data project, the modules supported by it, and its features such as easy to integrate multiple data stores, using the default CRUD functionality, and the support for auditing. We discussed in depth about the interfaces such as Repository, CrudRepository, and ReactiveRepository to create custom Spring Data repositories. While creating these repositories, we may need to add the methods for querying the repositories. As the query builder builds the queries from the method names, we also discussed naming the methods to obtain the result from the repository. We created an interface, and now, to implement the framework, we asked the framework to create proxies of the repository interfaces. The Spring Framework supports both XML-based as well as annotation-based proxy creation annotations such as @EnableJpaRepositories The...