Getting Started with MyBatis in Spring

In this section, we will cover how to set up MyBatis to work with Spring. First we will provide a brief introduction to MyBatis, and then we will demonstrate how to create a project in STS for working with MyBatis. Also, we will present the data model that will be used for implementing the samples in this chapter. Finally, we will discuss the Spring configuration required for working with MyBatis.

Introducing MyBatis

iBATIS, the old name of MyBatis, was started by Clinton Begin in 2001, with the project code donated to Apache Software Foundation (ASF) in 2004. Based on its SQL mapping focus, simple infrastructure, and easy-to-understand mapping definitions from SQL queries to the Java OO model, iBATIS gained popularity quickly and became one of the most used data access libraries in the Java developer community.