What is JPA?

Learn how Spring JPA makes database operations easy in Java programming.

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In the previous section on Spring JDBC, we demonstrated how to perform CRUD operations using the JdbcTemplate class. JDBC requires the developer to write the queries, map values to the query, pass a set of parameters to execute the query, and map rows of the result set to a bean. For simple queries, this task is manageable, but in large applications with hundreds of tables, the queries ...