Database connection management in Spring

Question

Do we have to explicitly manage database resources when using Spring Framework.. liking closing all open connections etc?

I have read that Spring relieves developer from

Answer 1

you say "The jdbcTemplate is configured in the xml file". You should normally create a new instance of the jdbcTemplate for each usage, not have it managed by spring.

I would guess that each time you request a new jdbcTemplate bean from spring, it is creating a new one with a new connection to the database, but after it falls out of scope in your code it is still referenced by spring's applicationContext, and so does not close the connection.