Preface
Spring Framework has always had good support for different data access technologies. However, one thing remained the same for a long period of time: developers had to implement their data access layer by using technology specific APIs, and often these APIs were not very concise. This led to a situation where one had to write a lot of boilerplate code in order to achieve the desired results. Sounds familiar, right?
The Spring Data project was born as an answer to these problems. Its goal is to provide an easier way to create applications, which use either relational databases or newer data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, or cloud based storage technologies, with the Spring framework. It is essentially ...
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