"No ORM (such as Hibernate); they use straight JDBC ... Spring as glue" Spring has stuff in it to make working with JDBC much more sane (much less exception ha

"No ORM (such as Hibernate); they use straight JDBC ... Spring as glue" Spring has stuff in it to make working with JDBC much more sane (much less exception handling code to write, you can make it DRY, etc.). I'd be very surprised if they weren't using that.