The developer of the late 1990s and early-to mid-2000s will be familiar with the amount of plumbing code that had to be written to execute a simple query through JDBC and populate the result into a Java object. You had to perform a Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) lookup, get a connection, and populate the results. This resulted in duplicate code. Usually, problems were repeated with exception handling code in every method. And this problem is not limited to JDBC.

One of these problems Spring Framework solved was by eliminating all the plumbing code. With Spring JDBC, Spring JMS, and other abstractions, the developers could focus on writing business logic. Spring framework took care of the nitty-gritty.