This tutorial guides you through on building simple REST APIs using Spring Data JPA and Spring Boot. At the end of this tutorial, you would be able to write the applications with Spring Data JPA using Spring Boot. Declare spring-boot-starter-data-jpa, it grabs Spring Data,Hibernate and JPA related stuff. //pom.xml <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.mkyong</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-jpa-oracle-example</artifactId> <packaging>jar</packaging> <version>1.0</version> <parent> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>