The @Bean annotation is used to declare a method that returns an object that should be registered as a bean in the application context. The @ConditionalOnBean annotation is used to specify a condition for the bean creation based on the presence or absence of other beans in the application context. The name attribute of this annotation can be used to specify the bean name or names that must be present or absent for the condition to match. However, this approach is less flexible than using the value or type attribute, which can specify the bean class or classes that must be present or absent for the condition to match. Therefore, it is recommended to use @ConditionalOnBean(DataSource.class) instead of @ConditionalOnBean(name= “dataSource”) for greater flexibility. The JdbcTemplate class is a Spring class that simplifies the use of JDBC and helps to avoid common errors. It executes core JDBC workflow, leaving application code to provide SQL and extract results. To create a JdbcTemplate object, we need to pass a DataSource object as a constructor argument. The DataSource interface is a Java interface that represents a factory of connection objects. In this code, the jdbcTemplate() method takes a DataSource object as a parameter and returns a new JdbcTemplate object. This method is annotated with @Bean and @ConditionalOnBean(name= “dataSource”), which means that it will only create a JdbcTemplate bean when there is already a bean named dataSource in the application context.