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Is spring data jpa tightly coupled with hibernate

I just read spring in action and I read about spring data jpa. As I know jpa is only interface and it cannot be used without implementation. I noticed that spring data jpa use only the hibernate library as ORM. Is it tightly coupled with hibernate or I can change the implementation of jpa with something else like eclipselink for example?

Also I am using Spring boot - is there any way to integrate eclipselink without spring data in spring boot?

Solution

  • Spring Data JPA builds only on the JPA specification. You can use it with any implementation you like.

    As for the second question: Yes you can use Spring Boot without Spring Data. And you can use normal Spring Configurations to configure whatever you want, including JPA.