intermediateSpring Boot Integration — Flyway/Liquibase, Auditing & Multi-Database Setups
How does @EnableJpaAuditing automatically populate @CreatedDate without any explicit save-time code?
It's implemented via a Hibernate entity listener (AuditingEntityListener) hooked into the standard JPA lifecycle callbacks (@PrePersist/@PreUpdate) — the same entity lifecycle from earlier in the course — so the timestamp population happens automatically as part of persist/update, with zero manual bookkeeping in application code.
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