Spring Boot With H2 Database

Posted by Hayri Cicek on July 25, 2018

H2 is an open source relational database management system written in Java.
It can be embedded in Java applications or run in the client-server mode and it is easy to install and deploy.

Tools You Will Need
Maven 3.3+
Your favorite IDE. I'm using NetBeans
JDK 1.8+

Creating the Project With Spring Initializer
Go to start.spring.io and follow the steps below to generate a new project.

Enter the Details as Follows

Group: com.kodnito
Artifact: spring-boot-with-h2 
Dependencies: Web, H2, JDBC

Click Generate Project to generate and download your project.
Next, Unzip the downloaded zip file and import it into your favorite IDE.

H2 provides a web interface called H2 Console to see the data.
We can enable the console in /src/main/resources/application.properties


spring.h2.console.enabled=true
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:file:~/test
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=org.h2.Driver

Create Schema and Data
In /src/main/resources/ create a file called schema.sql and type


create table todo (
    id integer not null,
    title varchar(255) not null,
    primary key(id)
);

Let's populate some data, create /src/main/resources/data.sql


insert into todo
values(1, 'Learn more Spring Boot');

insert into todo
values(2, 'Go buy milk');

Now when you open H2 Console http://localhost:8080/h2-console, you will now see that the todo table is created and the data is populated.

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