Spring Boot

Postgres

Liquibase

Mybatis

Gradle

Spring Boot Rest API with MyBatis and PostgreSQL

In this story, we’ll implement a sample REST API that uses Spring Boot with MyBatis and PostgreSQL.

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· Prerequisites
· Overview
∘ What is MyBatis?
∘ Why Mybatis?
· Getting Started
∘ Project Structure
∘ Database initialization
· Spring MyBatis integration
∘ Create Book Model
∘ Create Book Repository
∘ Service Layer
∘ Create Book Controller
· Test the application
· Conclusion
· References

Prerequisites

This is the list of all the prerequisites:

• Spring Boot 4 or later
• Maven 3.9.12 or later
• Java 21
• Liquibase for schema versioning
• Your favorite IDE (IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, or VS Code)
• Postman / insomnia or any other API testing tool.
• PostgreSQL 14 or higher