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## Spring JPA Example Project


### Relevant Articles: 
- [The DAO with JPA and Spring](https://www.baeldung.com/spring-dao-jpa)
- [JPA Pagination](https://www.baeldung.com/jpa-pagination)
- [Sorting with JPA](https://www.baeldung.com/jpa-sort)
- [Self-Contained Testing Using an In-Memory Database](https://www.baeldung.com/spring-jpa-test-in-memory-database)
- [A Guide to Spring AbstractRoutingDatasource](https://www.baeldung.com/spring-abstract-routing-data-source)
- [Obtaining Auto-generated Keys in Spring JDBC](https://www.baeldung.com/spring-jdbc-autogenerated-keys)
- [Transactions with Spring and JPA](https://www.baeldung.com/transaction-configuration-with-jpa-and-spring)
- [Use Criteria Queries in a Spring Data Application](https://www.baeldung.com/spring-data-criteria-queries)
- [Many-To-Many Relationship in JPA](https://www.baeldung.com/jpa-many-to-many)


### Eclipse Config 
After importing the project into Eclipse, you may see the following error:  
"No persistence xml file found in project"

This can be ignored: 
- Project -> Properties -> Java Persistance -> JPA -> Error/Warnings -> Select Ignore on "No persistence xml file found in project"
Or: 
- Eclipse -> Preferences - Validation - disable the "Build" execution of the JPA Validator