Before Spring Framework, typical J2EE (or Java EE, as it is called now) applications contained a lot of plumbing code. For example: getting a database connection, exception handling code, transaction management code, logging code, and a lot more.

Let's take a look at a simple example of executing a query using prepared statement:

    PreparedStatement st = null;
    try {
          st = conn.prepareStatement(INSERT_TODO_QUERY);
          st.setString(1, bean.getDescription());
          st.setBoolean(2, bean.isDone());
          st.execute();
        } 
    catch (SQLException e) {
          logger.error("Failed : " + INSERT_TODO_QUERY, e);
     } finally {
                if (st != null) {
           try {
           st.close();
          } catch (SQLException e) {
           // Ignore - nothing to do..
          }
       }
     }

In the preceding example, there are four lines of business logic and more than 10 lines of plumbing code.

With Spring Framework, the same logic can be applied in a couple of lines:

    jdbcTemplate.update(INSERT_TODO_QUERY, 
    bean.getDescription(), bean.isDone());