Posted on by Tapas Joshi

Getting Started With Spring Boot and Spring Data REST

Get started with Spring Boot and Spring Data REST in this short tutorial.

To start working on Spring Data REST, we need to have some basic knowledge of JPA and the Spring Data JPA, as it is built on top of these projects. You can refer to the following links for documentation on Spring Data JPA and Spring Data REST.

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Step 1: Add the Following Dependencies to the Project

// Dependency for Spring data jpa
<dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
// Dependency for Spring data rest
<dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-rest</artifactId>
</dependency>