JPA Auditing

JPA auditing in Spring Data JPA enables automatic tracking of entity changes. With minimal configuration, we can easily capture and store information about the data modifications, such as creation and modification timestamps and user information. This auditing feature simplifies auditing requirements and provides valuable insights into data history and accountability.

Auditing metadata in POJOs

We’ll add a few properties in the POJOs that map the auditing metadata columns.

The Book POJO

Let’s add properties like createdBy, createdDate, lastModifiedBy, and lastModifiedDate to the Book class. The underlying JPA will take care of updating the database schema with the corresponding columns in ...