ODSA for Java Developers (Part 3) — Connecting to Oracle ADB from a Spring Boot 3.0 App with Spring Data JPA on Azure Spring Apps

Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure (ODSA)

by Juarez Junior

Introduction

Part 1 in this series introduced the Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure (ODSA), its benefits concerning a multi-cloud strategy, and an example of accessing it from a Java application with the JDBC API.

Part 2 explored another scenario with ODSA and a Spring Boot 3.0 application with Spring Data JPA on Azure App Service.

This blog post is about deploying the same application to Azure Spring Apps, a fully managed service from Microsoft and VMware.

Prerequisites

• JDK — Java Development Kit 17
• Your preferred Java IDE — Eclipse, IntelliJ, VS Code
• Apache Maven
• Oracle Database Service on Azure
• Azure Subscription
• Azure CLI

Azure Spring Apps

Azure Spring Apps is a fully managed service from Microsoft and VMware with opinionated, pre-configured, ready-to-deploy infrastructure services and runtime for Spring-based applications. It offers customers a quick way to lift and…