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Getting started

All JaVers artifacts are published to Maven Central.

Spring Boot Starter

The easiest and strongly recommended way to start with Javers is adding one of our Spring Boot starters to your project dependencies.

If you are using MongoDB — take:

compile 'org.javers:javers-spring-boot-starter-mongo:7.7.0'

If you are using an SQL database:

compile 'org.javers:javers-spring-boot-starter-sql:7.7.0'

Please note that Javers 7.x is compatible with Spring Boot 3, so all Javers Spring integration modules require Java 17.

These starters provide default configuration and create the Javers instance as a Spring bean. You can start using Javers with almost no configuration.

Javers tutorial on baeldung.com

Eugen Baeldung has written an excellent tutorial about Javers — Using JaVers for Data Model Auditing in Spring Data

We recommend reading it in the first place.

Vanilla Javers

If you are not using Spring, add javers-core to your project dependencies and (optionally) choose proper javers-repository module.

javers-core

Gradle:

compile 'org.javers:javers-core:7.7.0'

Please note that Javers core and Javers persistence modules require Java 11.

If you’re going to use JaVers as an object diff tool, this is the only dependency you need.

javers-repository

If you are going to use JaVers as a data audit framework, choose the proper repository implementation. For example, if you’re using MongoDB add:

Gradle:

compile 'org.javers:javers-persistence-mongo:7.7.0'

If you are using an SQL database — add:

compile 'org.javers:javers-persistence-sql:7.7.0'

Create a JaVers instance

Use JaversBuilder to create a JaVers instance:

import org.javers.core.Javers;
import org.javers.core.JaversBuilder;
//...
Javers javers = JaversBuilder.javers().build();

Now, the JaVers instance is up and ready, configured with reasonable defaults. Good enough to start.

Later on, you would probably need to refine the configuration and introduce some basic facts about your domain model to JaVers.

Object diff

Use the compare() method to calculate a diff for two arbitrary complex domain objects:

Person tommyOld = new Person("tommy", "Tommy Smart");
Person tommyNew = new Person("tommy", "Tommy C. Smart");

Diff diff = javers.compare(tommyOld, tommyNew);

See more diff examples.

Object audit

Use the javers.commit() method to audit changes done on your domain objects. Javers saves subsequent versions of domain objects as Snapshots in JaversRepository

Person robert = new Person("bob", "Robert Martin");
javers.commit("user", robert);

See more audit examples.

Auto audit

In order to automatically audit objects saved to Spring Data repositories use the @JaversSpringDataAuditable annotation:

@JaversSpringDataAuditable
public interface PersonRepository extends CrudRepository<Person, String> {
}