The GitHub spring-data-examples repository hosts several examples that you can download and play around with to get a feel for how the library works.

Spring Data JPA, part of the larger Spring Data family, makes it easy to easily implement JPA-based (Java Persistence API) repositories. It makes it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use …

Spring Data JPA takes the concept of a specification from Eric Evans' book, “Domain Driven Design”, following the same semantics and providing an API to define such specifications with the JPA criteria …

Spring Data JPA provides repository support for the Jakarta Persistence API (JPA). It eases development of applications with a consistent programming model that need to access JPA data …

Accessing Data with JPA This guide walks you through the process of building an application that uses Spring Data JPA to store and retrieve data in a relational database.

JPA’s Criteria API lets you build queries programmatically. Spring Data JPA Specification provides a small, focused API to express predicates over entities and reuse them across repositories.

The Spring JPA, available under the org.springframework.orm.jpa package, offers comprehensive support for the Java Persistence API in a manner similar to the integration with Hibernate while being …

This chapter points out the specialties for repository support for JPA. This builds on the core repository support explained in Working with Spring Data Repositories.

By default, Spring Data JPA uses position-based parameter binding, as described in all the preceding examples. This makes query methods a little error-prone when refactoring regarding the parameter …

The JPA module of Spring Data contains a custom namespace that allows defining repository beans. It also contains certain features and element attributes that are special to JPA.