Backdrop
To begin with, this an example primarily written in Springboot to leverage the benefits of Spring Data JPA. The main motive of this article to have a simple and common data search logic that applies to almost every table and is client-oriented. This article is heavily inspired by one from Eugen Paraschiv, I recommend going through his tutorials to learn Spring professionally.
Pre-Requisites for Getting Started
- Java 8 is installed.
- Any Java IDE (preferably STS or IntelliJ IDEA).
- Basic understanding of Java and Spring-based web development along with Spring Data JPA.
I used Spring Initializer to add all the dependencies and create a blank working project with all my configurations. I used Maven as project build type and Java 8 as language, though this part is up to your choice as long as it is supported by spring. Below are my required dependencies which can easily be added from spring initializer.