This example presents the basic concept of initializing database in Spring JDBC.

The technologies used are :

– Spring 4.3.18
– H2 1.3
– Lombok 1.18
– JDK 1.80
– Maven 3.3.9

You can convert this example to an Eclipse IDE project by going to folder where is the pom.xml is, and use the command :

mvn eclipse:eclipse

Inspired from « Beginning Spring » Mert Caliskan, Kenan Sevindik, Rod Johnson (Foreword by), Jürgen Höller (Foreword by).

<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>javaspringexamples.springJDBC</groupId>
	<artifactId>springJdbcInitializingDb</artifactId>
	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

	<properties>
		<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
		<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
	</properties>

	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
			<version>4.3.18.RELEASE</version>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
			<version>4.3.18.RELEASE</version>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
			<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
			<version>1.3.175</version>
		</dependency>

	</dependencies>
</project>

package javaspringexamples.springJDBC.InitializingDb;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;

import javax.sql.DataSource;

import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

/**
 * 
 * @author mounir.sahrani@gmail.com
 *
 */
public class Main {
	public static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException {
		ClassPathXmlApplicationContext applicationContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("classpath:conf.xml");
		DataSource dataSource = applicationContext.getBean("dataSource", DataSource.class);

		Connection connection = dataSource.getConnection();
		System.out.println(connection.isClosed());
		connection.close();
		System.out.println(connection.isClosed());
	}
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-4.0.xsd">

	<bean id="dataSource"
		class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">

		<property name="driverClassName" value="org.h2.Driver" />
		<property name="url"
			value="jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost/~/javaspringexamples" />
		<property name="username" value="sa" />
		<property name="password" value="" />
	</bean>

	<!-- <jdbc:embedded-database id="dataSource" type="H2"/> -->

	<jdbc:initialize-database
		data-source="dataSource">
		<jdbc:script location="classpath:schema.sql" />
		<jdbc:script location="classpath:data.sql" />
	</jdbc:initialize-database>

</beans>

MERGE INTO USER (ID, NAME, USER_NAME, ACCESS_TIME, LOCKED) values (999, 'Mounir SAHRANI', 'msahrani', '2019-01-01',false);
MERGE INTO USER (ID, NAME, USER_NAME, ACCESS_TIME, LOCKED) values (256, 'Laurent SOURDEAU', 'lsourdeau', '2019-06-01',false);

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS USER (ID BIGINT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY, NAME VARCHAR(60), USER_NAME VARCHAR(60), ACCESS_TIME TIMESTAMP, LOCKED BOOLEAN);

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