YMNNALFT: A lightweight SQL data mapper with the JdbcTemplate
Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (YMNNALFT)! I’ve spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity.
I think the first use I had for Spring, more than 15 years ago, was the JdbcTemplate
, which eliminated the eye-watering and verbose work of using JDBC directly. As you might know, JDBC stands for “Just Don’t Break, Compiler!” and was designed to test the JVM limit of 65535 bytes of bytecode per method by providing an API that consistently requires more lines of code than that to do even basic things.