Summary
The EDMS application is a prototype that exhibits how to integrate a relational database management system to a Spring MVC application. This chapter showcases a few of the popular Object Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks such as Hibernate 4.x, MyBatis 3.x and JPA 2.x, that provide different database abstraction layers for Spring's database transactions. Although the database technology used is MySQL, the process of configuration applies is the same as other relational database management systems (RDBMS) like in Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle 11g/12C, except with some extra properties to their additional drivers.
NoSQL databases like MongoDB, and its integration to Spring MVC, will be discussed in Chapter 10, Social Task Management System ...
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