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omrico

Nice article.
We moved our (enterprise grade) Spring boot microservices from JDBC to Spring Data JPA.
I would not recommend beginners to use JDBC as it takes more tweaking and customizing comparing to Spring Data JPA.

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Marco Behler

It's kind of an apple/oranges comparison. JPA (and with that I don't mean just quickly slapping up 2 spring data repositories) has a huge learning curve for beginners. In addition, it's built on top of JDBC, so the basics never hurt. But yes, fumbling around with plain JDBC is painful for bigger projects.