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Setup Entities

Explore how to define JPA entities by mapping POJOs to database tables using annotations like @Entity, @Id, and @GeneratedValue. Understand the setup for automatic schema creation with Hibernate and Spring Data JPA to integrate your application’s data layer efficiently.

What is an Entity?

A JPA entity is basically a POJO representing a table in the database.

Similarly, the object of an entity class corresponds to a row in the database table.

Create a TodoType Entity

Let’s learn a few handy annotations to transform a POJO into an entity.

The most common annotations are @Entity ...