SQL Statement Loader via Spring IO Resource

StatementLoader.java

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
import org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
public class StatementLoader {
  
  final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(this.getClass());
  
  public void executeStatements(Resource resource, JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate) {
    
    try {
      List<String> statements = loadStatements(resource);
      
      for(String statement: statements) {
        logger.info("Executing statement: " + statement);
        jdbcTemplate.execute(statement);
      }
      
    } catch(IOException e) {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
  }
  
  private List loadStatements(Resource resource) throws IOException {
    String contents = loadContents(resource.getFile());
    List statements = Arrays.asList(contents.split(";"));
    return statements;
  }
  
  private String loadContents(File resource) throws IOException {
    StringBuffer contents = new StringBuffer();
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(resource));
    String buf = null;
    
    while((buf = reader.readLine()) != null) {
      contents.append(buf);
    }
    
    reader.close();

    return contents.toString();
  }
}