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Add JPA Data to an Existing Spring Boot Blog

In this code lab, you'll replace static blog data with JPA Entities and Repositories that connect to an in-memory H2 database as well as add new entity relationships.

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 13h 42m
Published
Clock icon Sep 12, 2022

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create the Post Entity and Repository

    Before starting on the tasks, you can run the project by entering mvn spring-boot:run in the terminal or by pressing the Run button underneath the terminal. Once the app is running, you can view the blog in the Web Browser tab at 0.0.0.0:8080.

    Note: When in the terminal use ctrl+c to stop the app before checking off the tasks because it will interfere with the tests.

  2. Challenge

    Create the Category Entity and Repository

  3. Challenge

    Display all categories and individual categories

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