beginnerSpring Data JPA — Repositories, Derived Queries & Auto-Configuration
What does extending JpaRepository actually give you, and how does Spring implement it?
It gives you save/findById/findAll/delete plus paging/sorting plus JPA-specific batch operations, all with zero implementation code. At startup, Spring scans for interfaces extending it and generates a dynamic proxy implementing your interface, using EntityManager operations underneath.
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