JDBC has simplified database access in Java applications, but a few nagging wrinkles remainnamely, persisting Java objects to relational databases. With this book, you'll learn how the Spring Framework makes that job incredibly easy with dependency injection, template classes, and object-relational-mapping (ORM).Through sample code, you'll discover how Spring streamlines the use of JDBC and ORM tools such as Hibernate, the Java Persistence API (JPA), and Java Data Objects (JDO). If you're a Java developer familiar with Spring (perhaps through O'Reilly's Just Spring tutorial) and want to advance your data access skills, this book shows you how.Learn how to use Spring's basic and advanced data access tools Work with Spring's JdbcTemplate class to separ...