What is JdbcDaoSupport used for?

Question

In Spring, when we are inserting into the database, we can use JdbcDaoSupport or not. My question is, what are the advantages in using it and in which circumstances we should use it?

Answer 1

According to these answers:

• Proper way to inject parent class dependencies with Spring annotations
• spring3-annotation-JdbcDaoSupport
• NamedParameterJdbcDaoSupport datasource autowire?

JdbcDaoSupport, NamedParameterJdbcDaoSupport, SimpleJdbcDaoSupport are unnecessary and are mental dust. They doesn't save any line of code because you need to inject data-source or template into.

What I recommend - to create templates in XML/class config per data source and reuse/inject them as templates are thread safe according to docs:

Once configured, a JdbcTemplate instance is threadsafe. You may want multiple JdbcTemplate instances if your application accesses multiple databases, which requires multiple DataSources, and subsequently multiple differently configured JdbcTemplates.

Compare applicationContext.xml:

<bean id="dataSource"
      class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
      destroy-method="close">
    <property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}"/>
    <property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}"/>
    <property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}"/>
    <property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}"/>
</bean>
<bean id="jdbcTemplate" 
      class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.namedparam.NamedParameterJdbcTemplate">
    <constructor-arg ref="dataSource"/>
</bean>

and YourDaoImpl.java:

public class YourDaoImpl implements YourDao {

    @Autowired
    private NamedParameterJdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate;

    @Override
    public int tableExists(String table) {
        String sql = "select count(*) from all_tables"
                + "  where table_name = :tbl";
        return jdbcTemplate.queryForObject(
                    sql, new MapSqlParameterSource("tbl", table), Integer.class);
    }
}

with JdbcDaoSupport.java:

public class YourDaoImpl extends NamedParameterJdbcDaoSupport implements YourDao {

   @Autowired
    public void setDs(DataSource dataSource) {
        setDataSource(dataSource);
    }

    @Override
    public int tableExists(String table) {
        String sql = "select count(*) from all_tables"
                + "  where table_name = :tbl";
        return getNamedParameterJdbcTemplate()
               .queryForObject(
                       sql,
                       new MapSqlParameterSource("tbl", table), Integer.class);
    }

}

UPDATE Official statement about stateless (and so thread safety) of JdbcTemplate/NamedParameterJdbcTemplate here https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-11478