title: Spring jdbctemplate is it required to close the connection
body: <p>I am fetching the connection in jdbctemplate in below fashion:-</p>
  
  <pre><code>getJdbcTemplate().getDataSource().getConnection()
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  <p>Is it necessary to close the connection fetched in the above manner? The spring JDBCTemplate API states that connection closures will be handled automatically , so I am not sure if this is happening correctly.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/jdbc.html" rel="nofollow">http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/jdbc.html</a></p>