In the first version of this post, I showed how to do this using Roo. However, this seems to create too much pain, so I have updated the post to describe ‘normal’ usage of JPA (with the spring-data project). So – if you see comments below that seem irrelevant – this update is the reason.
In the previous part, we set up a little request flow that used Spring MVC to define a request mapping into our DOC system, and provide the user with a list of tramps retrieved from the a service. We also hooked it all up together nicely as components (using the @Controller and @Service Spring Stereotypes) – so they all play together seamlessly.
In this part we’ll get our tramps web application to read tramps information from the database. This is quite easy to do with Spring, using the spring-data project, particularly – spring-jpa.
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