Mastering Spring 5.0

Building a quick prototype for a microservice

Let's say we want to build a microservice with Spring MVC and use JPA (with Hibernate as the implementation) to connect to the database.

Let's consider the steps in setting up such an application:

1. Decide which versions of Spring MVC, JPA and Hibernate to use.
2. Set up a Spring context to wire all the different layers together.
3. Set up a web layer with Spring MVC (including Spring MVC configuration):
   • Configure beans for DispatcherServlet, handler, resolvers, view resolvers, and so on
4. Set up Hibernate in the data layer:
   • Configure beans for SessionFactory, data source, and so on
5. Decide and implement how to store your application configuration, which varies between different environments.
6. Decide ...