Spring Boot & H2 - Console

As in previous chapter Application Setup, we've created the required files in spring boot project. Now let's update the application.properties lying in src/main/resources and pom.xml to use a different version of maven-resources-plugin.

application.properties

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:mem:testdb

pom.xml

...
<build>
   <plugins>
      <plugin>
         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>3.1.0</version>
      </plugin>
   </plugins>
</build>
...

Run the application

In eclipse, run the Employee Application configuration as prepared during Application Setup

Eclipse console will show the similar output.

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] 
[INFO] -----------------< com.tutorialspoint:sprint-boot-h2 >------------------
[INFO] Building sprint-boot-h2 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
...
  .   ____          _            __ _ _
 /\\ / ___'_ __ _ _(_)_ __  __ _ \ \ \ \
( ( )\___ | '_ | '_| | '_ \/ _` | \ \ \ \
 \\/  ___)| |_)| | | | | || (_| |  ) ) ) )
  '  |____| .__|_| |_|_| |_\__, | / / / /
 =========|_|==============|___/=/_/_/_/
 :: Spring Boot ::                (v2.5.2)

...
2021-07-24 20:51:11.347  INFO 9760 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.b.w.embedded.tomcat.TomcatWebServer
: Tomcat initialized with port(s): 8080 (http)
...
2021-07-24 20:51:11.840  INFO 9760 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.b.a.h2.H2ConsoleAutoConfiguration 
: H2 console available at '/h2-console'. Database available at 'jdbc:h2:mem:testdb'
...
2021-07-24 20:51:14.805  INFO 9760 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.b.w.embedded.tomcat.TomcatWebServer
: Tomcat started on port(s): 8080 (http) with context path ''
2021-07-24 20:51:14.823  INFO 9760 --- [  restartedMain] c.t.s.SprintBootH2Application
: Started SprintBootH2Application in 7.353 seconds (JVM running for 8.397)

Once server is up and running, open localhost:8080/h2-console in a browser and click on Test Connection to verify the database connection.

Click on Connect button and H2 database window will appear as shown below −