Spring Boot ORM - EclipseLink Integration

Spring Boot uses HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration which configures the hibernate implementation by default. In order to switch to EclipseLink, we need to create a custom configuration class which will extend the JpaBaseConfiguration class. JpaBaseConfiguration is the base class which is used to extend and configure JPA for any ORM implementation. Following is the code of EclipsLinkJpaConfiguration.

JPA Configuration

Create EclipseLink Configuration class.

EclipsLinkJpaConfiguration.java

package com.tutorialspoint.springbootorm;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.sql.DataSource;

import org.eclipse.persistence.config.BatchWriting;
import org.eclipse.persistence.config.PersistenceUnitProperties;
import org.eclipse.persistence.logging.SessionLog;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.ObjectProvider;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.orm.jpa.JpaBaseConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.orm.jpa.JpaProperties;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource;
import org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.AbstractJpaVendorAdapter;
import org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.EclipseLinkJpaVendorAdapter;
import org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager;

// EclipseLink Specific Configuration Class
@Configuration
public class EclipsLinkJpaConfiguration extends JpaBaseConfiguration {

   protected EclipsLinkJpaConfiguration(DataSource dataSource, JpaProperties properties,
      ObjectProvider<JtaTransactionManager> jtaTransactionManager) {
      super(dataSource, properties, jtaTransactionManager);
   }

   // EclipseLink JPA Adaptor
   @Override
   protected AbstractJpaVendorAdapter createJpaVendorAdapter() {
      return new EclipseLinkJpaVendorAdapter();
   }

   // EclipseLink Properties
   @Override
   protected Map<String, Object> getVendorProperties() {
      Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();
      map.put(PersistenceUnitProperties.WEAVING, "false");
      map.put(PersistenceUnitProperties.LOGGING_LEVEL, SessionLog.FINER_LABEL); 
      map.put(PersistenceUnitProperties.DDL_GENERATION, PersistenceUnitProperties.CREATE_ONLY);
      map.put(PersistenceUnitProperties.LOGGING_LEVEL, SessionLog.FINER_LABEL); 
      return map;
   }

   // Database Connection properties setup
   @Bean
   public static DataSource dataSource() {
      final DriverManagerDataSource dataSource = new DriverManagerDataSource();
      dataSource.setDriverClassName("com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver");
      dataSource.setUrl("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/tutorialspoint");
      dataSource.setUsername("guest");
      dataSource.setPassword("guest123");
      return dataSource;
   }

   @Override
   protected Map<String, Object> getVendorProperties(DataSource dataSource) {
      final Map<String, Object> ret = new HashMap<>();
      ret.put(PersistenceUnitProperties.BATCH_WRITING, BatchWriting.JDBC);
      return ret;
   }
}

We've added Adapter, DataSource and properties using createJpaVendorAdapter(), dataSource() and getVendorProperties() methods respectively.

Update Entity

Update the Entity as well to use Integer instead of int.

Employee.java

package com.tutorialspoint.springbootorm.entity;

import jakarta.persistence.Entity;
import jakarta.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import jakarta.persistence.GenerationType;
import jakarta.persistence.Id;

// entity class to persist object to Employee Table
@Entity
public class Employee {

   @Id
   @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
   private Integer id;
   private String name;
   private Integer age;
   private String email;

   // setter, getter methods
   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;
   }

   public Integer getAge() {
      return age;
   }

   public void setAge(Integer age) {
      this.age = age;
   }

   public String getEmail() {
      return email;
   }

   public void setEmail(String email) {
      this.email = email;
   }
}