Using StatementCallback
File: context.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:lang="http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang-2.0.xsd"> <!-- <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close"> <property name="driverClassName" value="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"/> <property name="url" value="jdbc:oracle:thin:@oracle.devcake.co.uk:1521:INTL"/> <property name="username" value="sa"/> <property name="password" value=""/> </bean> --> <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close"> <property name="driverClassName" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"/> <property name="url" value="jdbc:hsqldb:mem:."/> <property name="username" value="sa"/> <property name="password" value=""/> </bean> <!-- <bean id="mysqlDataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close"> <property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/> <property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://dbhost-prospring-psql/prospring"/> <property name="username" value="sa"/> <property name="password" value=""/> </bean> --> <bean id="lobHandler" class="org.springframework.jdbc.support.lob.OracleLobHandler"> <property name="nativeJdbcExtractor" ref="nativeJdbcExtractor"/> </bean> <bean id="nativeJdbcExtractor" class="org.springframework.jdbc.support.nativejdbc.CommonsDbcpNativeJdbcExtractor"/> <bean id="jdbcTemplate" class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate"> <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/> </bean> </beans> File: Main.java import java.sql.SQLException; import java.sql.Statement; import javax.sql.DataSource; import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext; import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext; import org.springframework.dao.DataAccessException; import org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate; import org.springframework.jdbc.core.StatementCallback; class Main { public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { ApplicationContext ac = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("context.xml", Main.class); DataSource dataSource = (DataSource) ac.getBean("dataSource"); // DataSource mysqlDataSource = (DataSource) ac.getBean("mysqlDataSource"); JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate = new JdbcTemplate(dataSource); jdbcTemplate.execute(new StatementCallback() { public Object doInStatement(Statement statement) throws SQLException, DataAccessException { return statement.execute("insert into t_x (id) values (1)"); } }); } }