spring-projects/spring-petclinic

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Spring PetClinic is the official Spring sample application: a Spring Boot web app that manages a veterinary clinic's owners, pets, veterinarians, and visits. It is maintained by the Spring team as a reference example demonstrating idiomatic Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, and testing practices.

Use cases

• learn spring boot through a complete working example
• study a sample spring mvc crud web application
• see how to structure a spring data jpa project with tests
• reference project for spring best practices and conventions
• demo app to try spring tooling like maven, gradle, and container builds
• starting point for practicing spring development locally

When to choose

• you are learning Spring Boot, Spring MVC, or Spring Data JPA and want a canonical, well-maintained example
• you need a realistic baseline app for demos, tooling evaluation, reproducing bugs, or conference presentations
• you want to study project conventions such as Maven/Gradle builds, layered architecture, tests, and container image builds

When to avoid

• you need a real veterinary practice management system - this is a demo with an in-memory H2 database and seeded sample data
• you want a production-ready starter with authentication, multi-tenancy, or operational hardening
• your stack is not Java/JVM-based, since the entire example is built around Spring Boot

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