April 2012

Spring Data JPA Tutorial: Adding Custom Methods to a Single Repository

Although Spring Data JPA provides an excellent support for implementing CRUD operations and creating database queries, sometimes we need to do things that are not supported by it. For example, Spring Data JPA doesn't provide a built-in support for querying DTOs by using SQL. Luckily for us, we can "extend" our Spring Data JPA repositories […] Read more

Spring Data JPA Tutorial: Pagination

My Spring Data JPA tutorial has taught us how we can create database queries and sort our query results with Spring Data JPA. We have also implemented a search function that ignores case and returns todo entries whose title or description contains the given search term. This search function sorts the returned todo entries in […] Read more

Spring Data JPA Tutorial: Sorting

My Spring Data JPA tutorial has taught us how we can create both static and dynamic database queries with Spring Data JPA. We have also implemented a search function that ignores case and returns todo entries whose title or description contains the given search term. However, we haven't paid any attention to one very important […] Read more