Spring Data JPA

External

• https://spring.io/projects/spring-data-jpa

Internal

• Spring Data
• JPA

Overview

Spring Data JPA is a Spring Data project that assists with implementing JPA-based repositories. The approach involves writing the repository interface, including custom finder methods, and Spring will provide the implementation automatically.

Concepts

Default Backing Database

Seems to be H2. Why?

TODO

• How to tell that a JPA repository should use a specific database. How is that configured?