Setup JPA Repositories
Explore how to set up JPA repositories in Spring Data JPA. This lesson helps you understand repository types, annotations, and how to implement CRUD, pagination, and sorting features for efficient data access in your Spring applications.
What is a repository?
A repository is a class that provides storage, retrieval, and search behavior over a collection of objects that are usually persisted in the database.
Furthermore, simply by declaring the class with the @Repository annotation, we can define a repository in the Spring application, enabling autodetection through classpath scanning.
What is a JPA repository?
The JPA repository is the Repository interface provided by the Spring Data JPA over Java Persistence API (JPA). It provides a complete abstraction over the data access layer in a project.
First, the repository interfaces offer various abstract methods for storage, ...