Spring JdbcTemplate and Threading

Question

Is it safe to fork off a Thread to execute an insert using a JdbcTemplate in Swing.

It's a logging event and as much as possible I don't want it to affect perceived performance.

Answer 1

Also note that its thread-safety is very well explained in the Spring 3.1 reference documentation:

13.2.1.2 JdbcTemplate best practices

Instances of the JdbcTemplate class are threadsafe once configured. This is important because it means that you can configure a single instance of a JdbcTemplate and then safely inject this shared reference into multiple DAOs (or repositories). The JdbcTemplate is stateful, in that it maintains a reference to a DataSource, but this state is not conversational state.

Answer 2

This answer from the Spring forum says yes.t=25965

JdbcTemplate is a singleton that won't change state once it's set.