Chapter 5. Hitting the database

This chapter covers

  • Defining Spring’s data access support

  • Configuring database resources

  • Using Spring’s JDBC framework

  • Integrating with Hibernate, JPA, and iBATIS

With the core of the Spring container now under your belt, it’s time to put it to work in real applications. A perfect place to start is with a requirement of nearly any enterprise application: persisting data. Every one of us has probably dealt with database access in an application in the past. In doing so, you know that data access has many pitfalls. We have to initialize our data access framework, open connections, handle various exceptions, and close connections. If we get any of this wrong, we could potentially corrupt or delete valuable company data. ...

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