Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Step 4 – Creating a JPA Project Using Spring Initializr

This video tutorial guides viewers through creating a simple project using Spring Boot and Spring Initializer. It covers selecting dependencies like Web, JPA, and H2, importing the project into Eclipse, and setting up Maven. The tutorial explains the relationship between JPA and Hibernate, highlighting JPA as a specification and Hibernate as its implementation. Finally, it demonstrates running the application using embedded Tomcat, preparing for further development of features and entities.

What tool is used to quickly create Spring Boot projects?

• Spring Initializer

• Spring Boot CLI

• Spring Framework

• Spring Tool Suite

Which version of Spring Boot is recommended to use?

• 2.0.0 or higher

• 1.5.0

• 3.0.0

• 1.0.0

Which dependencies are added for developing REST services in the project?

• Spring Cloud

• Spring Data

• Spring Web

• Spring Security

What type of database is H2 considered as?

• NoSQL Database

• Distributed Database

• In-memory Database

• Relational Database

What is the purpose of Maven in the project setup?

• To provide a web server

• To run the application

• To compile Java code

• To manage project dependencies

What is the relationship between JPA and Hibernate?

• JPA and Hibernate are unrelated

• JPA is a framework, Hibernate is a library

• JPA is an implementation, Hibernate is an interface

• JPA is a specification, Hibernate is an implementation

What does JPA standardize in ORM?

• Database connections

• Object-relational mapping

• Web service calls

• User authentication