How to execute SQL insert queries to populate database during application start/load?

Question

I want to load some data into the mysql database during loading of the application. I am using Hibernate for managing database for the application. I can do it in groovy by

Answer 1

Spring already provides a way of initializing databases with content, using a DatabasePopulator. Here's one quick example that I found, for a Spring Batch sample application. The class to look at in that code is ResourceDatabasePopulator. Another example is in Spring Social project samples.