{"id":6488,"date":"2024-03-14T04:19:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T04:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-use-spring-data-jpa-annotations-for-entities\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T04:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:17:14","slug":"how-to-use-spring-data-jpa-annotations-for-entities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-use-spring-data-jpa-annotations-for-entities\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Data JPA @Entity Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To use the @Entity annotation in Spring Data JPA, you first need to create an entity class and add the @Entity annotation on the class name. 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