Implementing Spring Data with JPA

Spring Boot 2.0 still supports persistence using JPA, which avoids too many SQL scripts and Hibernate configurations. It provides auto-configuration when it comes to creating a persistence layer and, thus, it is an option to auto-configure the hibernate.properties and some JPA details. This recipe will illustrate how reactive applications can integrate with a non-reactive Spring Data JPA for MySQL CRUD transactions.

Getting started

Open ch09-flux and add a Spring Data JPA module for persistence and transaction management.

How to do it...

Spring 5 still supports Spring Data modules including Spring Data JPA. This recipe will showcase how to integrate Spring Data JPA using Spring Boot 2.0:

1. First, add the following starter POM dependency for Spring Data JPA auto-configuration:

<dependency> 
   <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> 
   <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId> 
</dependency> 

2. Inside the package...