Spring Boot Data JPA & Hibernate: Master Basics to Advance

<div>Master Hibernate and JPA with Spring Boot – A Complete Hands-On Course by EmbarkX</div><div><br></div><div>UPDATED TO SPRING FRAMEWORK 7 AND SPRING BOOT 4</div><div><br></div><div>EmbarkX presents a definitive journey into Hibernate, JPA, and Spring Boot—designed for Java developers aiming to build high-performance, maintainable applications. In this comprehensive program, you’ll start with an Introduction to Hibernate and How It Works, covering the core concepts of object-relational mapping (ORM), session management, and transactions. From there, you’ll dive into Understanding Our Project, where you’ll set up a Spring Boot application that serves as the backbone for all hands-on exercises.</div><div><br></div><div>Next, you’ll explore Introduction to JPA and Foundations of Persistence in Java, learning about the JPA specification, EntityManager, persistence contexts, and how JPA standardizes data access. By Taking a Step Back – Exploring Under the Hood, you’ll gain clarity on the differences between Hibernate’s native APIs and the JPA layer, ensuring you understand both performance optimizations and portability across JPA implementations.</div><div><br></div><div>Moving forward, you’ll learn Mapping Real-World Data Models with Relationships, tackling one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many associations. Dive into JPA Annotations You Should Be Aware Of, mastering annotations like @Entity, @Table, @Id, @GeneratedValue, @Column, @Embedded, and advanced mapping techniques. You’ll also cover Inheritance with JPA, implementing strategies such as SINGLE_TABLE, JOINED, and TABLE_PER_CLASS to model class hierarchies effectively.</div><div><br></div><div>The section on Querying and the Criteria API introduces JPQL, named queries, and dynamic queries. You’ll see how to fetch data efficiently, and build type-safe queries without writing raw SQL. Finally, Different Databases with Spring Boot demonstrates configuring various relational databases—H2, MySQL, PostgreSQL—showing you how to switch data sources.</div><div><br></div><div>By the end of this course, you will:</div><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Confidently use Hibernate and Spring Data JPA annotations.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Build complex entity relationships and inheritance mappings.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Write advanced JPQL and Criteria API queries.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Integrate your Spring Boot application with multiple database engines.</span></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>Join EmbarkX to unlock the power of Hibernate, JPA, and Spring Boot, and elevate your Java expertise to build real-world, enterprise-grade applications!</div>

What you'll learn:

• MASTER HIBERNATE ORM: Understand and implement Hibernate ORM for efficient data persistence, caching, and transaction management in Spring Boot applications
• BECOME JPA EXPERT: Learn JPA fundamentals—EntityManager, persistence contexts, and lifecycle—enabling you to build robust, portable Java persistence layers
• MAP COMPLEX DATA MODELS: Master one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many relationships and inheritance strategies (SINGLE_TABLE, JOINED, TABLE_PER_CLASS) using JPA
• QUERY LIKE A PRO: Write advanced JPQL and Criteria API queries for type-safe, dynamic data retrieval, with pagination and sorting in Spring Data JPA
• MULTI-DATABASE INTEGRATION: Configure and optimize H2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle databases with Spring Boot, including schema management