Spring Boot Data JPA & Hibernate: Master Basics to Advance (Udemy.com)

Master Hibernate and JPA with Spring Boot – A Complete Hands-On Course by EmbarkX

UPDATED TO SPRING FRAMEWORK 7 AND SPRING BOOT 4

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.

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.

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.

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.

By the end of this course, you will:

• Confidently use Hibernate and Spring Data JPA annotations.

• Build complex entity relationships and inheritance mappings.

• Write advanced JPQL and Criteria API queries.

• Integrate your Spring Boot application with multiple database engines.

Join EmbarkX to unlock the power of Hibernate, JPA, and Spring Boot, and elevate your Java expertise to build real-world, enterprise-grade applications!