The Pareto Principle applied in Spring JDBC

The Pareto Principle in action: going the extra mile to automate the extraction process makes the framework much more complex and delivers little real benefit

http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/jdbc/object/MappingSqlQueryWithParameters.html

Here the Pareto Principle (or 80/20 rule) is applied via this Spring JDBC mapper.

I would argue that this notion should be considered before embarking on any major automation project, e.g. writing a framework to automate the generation of forms and form fields rather then writing static views.