Question

Just been looking at the Spring framework for JDBC – it looks like there is a bit of a learning curve – and I’m still not able to find a nice up to date quick start Spring/JDBC tutorial of any quality!

Is there something lighter than Spring for basic JDBC operations – or has anyone got any good links for tutorials

Many thanks

Answer 1

Quite the opposite. JDBC support in Spring is very simple. Here is basic example:

dataSource = ... obtain data source... (e.g. via Spring config) SimpleJdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate = new SimpleJdbcTemplate(dataSource); Map<String, Object> row = jdbcTemplate.queryForMap(         'SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE ID=? LIMIT 1', 100); 

JdbcTemplate and SimpleJdbcTemplate has lot of query methods you may find useful. For mapping rows to your objects, take a look at RowMapper and ParameterizedRowMapper < T >.

For your datasource you usually want to use some advanced DataSource with pooling support. For testing, simple BasicDataSource will do:

BasicDataSource ds = new BasicDataSource(); ds.setDriverClassName('driverClassName'); ds.setUrl('jdbc://...'); ds.setUsername('username'); ds.setPassword('password');