Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, Hibernate, JPA, Maven, and MySQL Database

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In this tutorial, we will learn how to develop a Spring MVC web application using Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, Hibernate, JPA, Maven, and MySQL database.

What we’ll build

We are building a simple Spring MVC web application using Thymeleaf as a view.
Output: HTML page using Thymeleaf which displays a list of users from MySQL database.

1. Create Spring Boot Project

There are many ways to create a Spring Boot application. The simplest way is to use Spring Initializr at http://start.spring.io/, which is an online Spring Boot application generator.

2. Maven Dependencies

Add below Maven dependencies to your Spring Boot project:

 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
 <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
 <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
 <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>com.mysql</groupId>
 <artifactId>mysql-connector-j</artifactId>
 </dependency>

3. Packaging Structure

Here is the project structure for your reference:

4. Create a JPA Entity - User

Let's create a User JPA entity with the following content into it:
import jakarta.persistence.*;
@Entity
@Table(name = "user")
public class User
{
 @Id 
 @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
 private Integer id;
 private String name;
 
 public User()
 {
 }
 public User(Integer id, String name)
 {
 this.id = id;
 this.name = name;
 }
 public Integer getId()
 {
 return id;
 }
 public void setId(Integer id)
 {
 this.id = id;
 }
 public String getName()
 {
 return name;
 }
 public void setName(String name)
 {
 this.name = name;
 }
}

5. Create Spring Data JPA Repository - UserRepository

Let's create UserRepository interface that extends JpaRepository interface:
import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.JpaRepository;
public interface UserRepository extends JpaRepository<User, Integer>
{
}

6. Create Spring Controller - HomeController

Let's create HomeController Spring MVC controller with home() handler method that returns index Thyemelaf view:
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
@Controller
public class HomeController
{
 @Autowired UserRepository userRepo;
 
 @RequestMapping("/")
 public String home(Model model)
 {
 model.addAttribute("users", userRepo.findAll());
 return "index";
 }
}

7. Configuring MySQL Database

Configure application.properties to connect to your MySQL database.

Let's open an application.properties file and add the following database configuration to it.
logging.level.org.springframework=INFO
################### DataSource Configuration ##########################
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/users_database
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=root
################### Hibernate Configuration ##########################
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
spring.jpa.show-sql=true

message.properties

Create a message.properties under the resources folder and add the following content to it -

app.title=SpringMVC JPA Demo (With SpringBoot)

8. Insert SQL Script

Once you will run this application will create users table in a database and use the below insert SQL script to populate a few records in a users table.
INSERT INTO `users_database`.`user` (`id`, `name`) VALUES ('1', 'Salman');
INSERT INTO `users_database`.`user` (`id`, `name`) VALUES ('2', 'SRK');
INSERT INTO `users_database`.`user` (`id`, `name`) VALUES ('3', 'AMIR');
INSERT INTO `users_database`.`user` (`id`, `name`) VALUES ('4', 'Tiger');
INSERT INTO `users_database`.`user` (`id`, `name`) VALUES ('5', 'Prabhas');

9. Create a Thymeleaf View - index.html

Let's create a Thymeleaf view to show the list of users. Locate the index.html file under src/main/resources/templates folder of this project.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
 xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<title>Home</title>
</head>
<body>
 <h2 th:text="#{app.title}">App Title</h2>
 <table>
 <thead>
 <tr>
 <th>Id</th>
 <th>Name</th>
 </tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
 <tr th:each="user : ${users}">
 <td th:text="${user.id}">Id</td>
 <td th:text="${user.name}">Name</td>
 </tr>
 </tbody>
 </table>
 </body>
</html>

10. Running the Application

Now run Spring boot application and hit this link in the browser: http://localhost:8080/
You will see below HTML page on the screen:

11. Source code on GitHub

The source code of this tutorial is available on my GitHub Repository.

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Comments

  1. you didnt mention about db details...
    which version of my sql is used...

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    1. Hi, I updated MySQL version in tools and technologies used section. Spring boot starter parent provides default property for MySQL version that is 5.1.46

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    2. spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/users_database?autoReconnect=true&useSSL=false

      if its not mention autoReconnect=true&useSSL=false it shown as warm error message....

      what is autoReconnect=true&useSSL=false ? can you explain about this?

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  2. Thanks you for this great tutorial! but I'm curious where app.title is from.

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    1. Create a message.properties under resource folder and add the following content to it - app.title=SpringMVC JPA Demo (With SpringBoot). Refer source code project on my GitHub repository.

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  3. you have to create a messages.properties and add it to that. It is in the same directory as your application.properties.

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