What is MyBatis-Spring?

Introduction. MyBatis is one of the most commonly used open-source frameworks for implementing SQL databases access in Java applications.

What does the MyBatis-Spring Library do?

This library allows MyBatis to participate in Spring transactions, takes care of building MyBatis mappers and SqlSession s and inject them into other beans, translates MyBatis exceptions into Spring DataAccessException s, and finally, it lets you build your application code free of dependencies on MyBatis, Spring or MyBatis-Spring.

How do I start using MyBatis?

To start using MyBatis, we have to include two main dependencies — MyBatis and MyBatis-Spring: Apart from that, we’ll need basic Spring dependencies:

What is MyBatis Spring MVC?

MyBatis is free software that is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. Spring MVC: Spring MVC helps in building flexible and loosely coupled web applications. MVC stands for Model, View, Controller. Models are responsible for encapsulating the application data. The Views render response to the user with the help of the model object.

How do I configure MyBatis with Spring Boot?

Spring Boot provides mechanisms that simplify the configuration of MyBatis with Spring even more. First, let’s add the mybatis-spring-boot-starter dependency to our pom.xml: By default, if we use an auto-configuration feature, Spring Boot detects the H2 dependency from our classpath and configures both Datasource and SqlSessionFactory for us.