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y0bu
y0bu

Reputation: 85

is spring boot only for building rest api?

and if not what are more things that we can do with spring boot?

i know that we can build a whole web app(frontend and backend) in one spring boot application in the folder resource/template and resource/static but in the real world does somebody uses this method to create web application with the resource/template and resource/static?

and one more question what is used in the real world hibernate(with the SessionFactory or EntityManager) or JpaRepository in the spring data jpa?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3108

Answers (2)

GK7
GK7

Reputation: 126

This involves complete Spring history,

Actual motive of Spring was to enable loose coupling , so that unit tests can be easily performed . Spring MVC was for developing web applications with Model View Controller having their proper boundaries. Then Spring Boot which enabled developer to focus on business logic then configurations. That's why spring boot is a good choice for microservices.

For JPA or hibernate query , many people prefer using JPARepositoy as again you just have to define entity for the repository and Spring boot automatically provides you queries like findById and so on.

In short Spring boot have made it really easy to run the applications with different configurations and environment smoothly.

Upvotes: 1

Jens Schauder
Jens Schauder

Reputation: 82008

No Spring Boot isn't just for REST APIs.

Spring Boot is "just" a mechanism for autoconfiguring a Spring Framework based application. Therefore you can use and it does get used for all kinds of stuff.

  • REST APIs for webservices
  • Full web application using Spring MVC
  • SOAP services (or are they called SOAP dispensers?)
  • Reactive web applications
  • Command line tools
  • Batch jobs
  • Swing / JavaFX applications ...

Of course there are many more people writing web applications than Swing applications with or without Spring.

The kind of web application you describe and which I put under "Full web application using Spring MVC" is a very well established model and when done right way better aligned with the principles of REST than the average so called REST service. My very personal guess is: They will still be around when nobody remembers what Angular is.

For your additional question: Your question sounds a little like the relation between JPA and Spring Data JPA might not be completely clear. (see Spring Data JDBC / Spring Data JPA vs Hibernate)

Both are certainly used in real world projects. By definition more projects use JPA than Spring Data JPA since the first is a superset of the later.

Upvotes: 3

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