With this simple example you can quick start with spring-data-jpa. This project has minimalistic design and focused to make easy to understand. What is spring-data-jpa for actually? You use @Repository interfaces instead of DAO Implementations, Less boilerplate coding of DAO classes for frequent operations like persisting, finding, listing, etc… You can define JPA queries by annotations like this: @Query(“select p from Product p where… Read more »