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+Thanks for downloading jOOQ.
+Please visit http://www.jooq.org for more information.
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+This example was expired by Petri Kainulainen's excellent blog post:
+http://www.petrikainulainen.net/programming/jooq/using-jooq-with-spring-configuration/
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