For my first project ever on Java - I did an API on Spring Data Rest and connected to a db I designed on Oracle (requirement). I was pleasantly surprised at ho

For my first project ever on Java - I did an API on Spring Data Rest and connected to a db I designed on Oracle (requirement). I was pleasantly surprised at how much functionality I got for free once setup. I probably spent as much time on setting up Oracle and xml/config stuff as dev but it was still super fast to get a solid API built.