Defining an Entity
Learn how to create an entity and look at different JPA annotations for defining a relational mapping.
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JPA dependency
To use Spring Data JPA, we will add the starter JPA dependency to the pom.xml file of the tennis-player project as follows:
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<dependency><groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId><artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId></dependency>
When the pom.xml file is saved, we can see the JPA API in the Maven Dependencies folder. This API defines a lot of different annotations like @Entity, @Column, @Table, etc. Hibernate is an implementation of the JPA API which automatically gets configured in our application. The hibernate-core jar can be seen in the Maven Dependencies folder.
We will take the tennis player database example to ...