Hello Justin,
Here’s an excerpt from my spring boot config:
spring:
datasource:
url: …
username: …
password: …
jpa:
hibernate:
ddl-auto: none
If using an in-memory database (eg. h2, hsql, derby, etc…) then the default value of ddl-auto is create-drop. Otherwise, it’s none. Ideally, you’re going to create tables manually (vs hibernate creating them) or you can use something like flyway/liquibase. Even though the entities will be registered, as long as something doesn’t try to access them, I imagine you should be fine. Since I’m relatively new to this stuff as well, I suggest taking a look at axon trader. I attached a dependency diagram I made to help understand the relationship between each module.
