The following are the steps to create a base application:

1. Create Ch07_JdbcTemplates_Testing as a Java project.
2. Add all the required JARs for Spring core, Spring JDBC, and JDBC, which we added for the Ch03_JdbcTemapltes project.
3. Copy the com.packt.ch03.beans and com.packt.ch03.dao packages from the base project. We will only carry out testing for the BookDAO_JdbcTemplate class.
4. Copy connection_new.xml in the classpath.