Why is setDatSource() method in JdbcDaoSupport final?

[mosheh007]

Shouldn't this method have been made just public and not final as well? If not final I could do something like this on my DOAs which extends JdbcDoaSupport:
public class MyDao extends JdbcDaoSupport implements MyDoaIntF{

@Autowired
@Qualifier("coolDataSource")
@Override
public void setDataSource(DataSource dataSource){
super.setDataSource(dataSource);
}
}

now I have to do something like this:
@Autowired
@Qualifier("coolDataSource")
public void setMyDataSource(DataSource dataSource){
super.setDataSource(dataSource);
}
which its not entirely cool.
p.s. I may be a bit pedantic here....

[Marten Deinum]

JdbcDaoSupport doesn't give you much added benefit, so you can either simply create a new JdbcTemplate yourself or inject a JdbcTemplate (saves you extending the spring classes). Next to that you could (and IMHO that is the best solution) create a constructor which takes a DataSource you can do anything you like with the @Autowired annotation. (IMHO the setDataSource method shouldn't have been there in the first place, because a Jdbc based dao without a datasource is pretty useless).