The Template pattern

- The template pattern is one of the most common patterns … that you will see throughout the entire Spring framework. … In Spring we use the template pattern … for almost every remote system call … that can be made unless of course you want to roll your own, … but with the template pattern there's no reason to do so. … The temple pattern provides common behavior … that spans across concrete implementations of remote calls. … So in a database world, we would have a database template … that would span all of the different flavors of RDBMS … and that's called a JDBC template. … Now in addition to providing common behavior … that spans concrete implementations of remote calls, … the template pattern in Spring also shares … a similar behavior across remote calls throughout … the way the templates are structured. … So what do I mean by that? … What you will see is the JDBC template … has very similar behavior to the JMS template … which also has very similar behavior to the RestTemplate. … So not only do we get similar behavior …