Spring Data MongoDB - Spring Web Services - Parent - SpringSource

please define productname in your docbook file!5.4 Introduction to MongoTemplateThe class MongoTemplate, located in the packageorg.springframework.data.document.mongodb, is the central class of the Spring's MongoDBsupport providng a rich feature set to interact with the database. The template offers convenienceoperations to create, update, delete and query for MongoDB documents and provides a mappingbetween your domain objects and MongoDB documents.NoteOnce configured, MongoTemplate is thread-safe and can be reused across multiple instances.The mapping between MongoDB documents and domain classes is done by delegating toan implementation of the interface MongoConverter. Spring provides two implementations,SimpleMappingConverter and MongoMappingConverter, but you can also write your ownconverter. Please refer to the section on MongoCoverters for more detailed information.The MongoTemplate class implements the interface MongoOperations. In as much as possible,the methods on MongoOperations are named after methods available on the MongoDB driverCollection object as as to make the API familiar to existing MongoDB developers who are used tothe driver API. For example, you will find methods such as "find", "findAndModify", "findOne", "insert","remove", "save", "update" and "updateMulti". The design goal was to make it as easy as possible totransition between the use of the base MongoDB driver and MongoOperations. A major difference inbetween the two APIs is that MongOperations can be passed domain objects instead of DBObject andthere are fluent APIs for Query, Criteria, and Update operations instead of populating a DBObjectto specify the parameters for those operatiosn.1.4.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOTSpring Data MongoDB -Reference Documentation 33