Spring Boot 3 Crash Course Part 3: Hibernate and Persist

Before delving into the creation of robust APIs, Let’s take a quick diversion to learn about how we can access a database in Spring and save and retrieve our data efficiently.

Part 2 — Link

Part 4 is now available: Here

Pre-Requisites:

1. Knowledge of what is a Database and DBMS.
2. A little bit of SQL basics.

Table Of Contents:

1. Using a database in spring
2. The easier way to use databases
3. What is hibernate?
4. Setting up a free database
5. Setting up the Spring Boot project
6. Connecting to a database
7. Repositories, Entity Managers and Contexts
8. CRUD operations using hibernate

Using A Database In Spring:

Spring provides a JDBC dependency for database access. Spring JDBC simplifies database interaction in Java applications by handling many of the tedious and error-prone tasks associated with database access.

JDBC stands for Java Database Connectivity. It is a Java-based API (Application Programming Interface) that allows Java…