This document discusses simple JDBC usage with Spring 2.5. It introduces the speaker and covers topics including when plain JDBC is more appropriate than an ORM, new Spring 2.5 JDBC features like SimpleJdbcTemplate and SimpleJdbcCall, and examples of using these features for basic queries, updates, inserts, and stored procedures. Live code demonstrations are provided to illustrate working with SimpleJdbcTemplate, SimpleJdbcInsert, and SimpleJdbcCall.