Spring Framework Overview

Spring Framework

Core Container

• spring-core. Core utilities, used by many other Spring modules
• spring-beans. Beans support, including Groovy
• spring-context. Application context runtime, including scheduling and remoting abstractions
• spring- context-support. Support classes for integrating common third-party libraries into a Spring application context
• spring-expression (SpEL)

AOP and Instrumentation

• spring-aop. Proxy-based AOP support
• spring-aspects. Integration with AspectJ
• spring-instrument. Instrumentation agent for JVM bootstrapping.
• spring-instrument-tomcat. Instrumentation agent for Tomcat.

Messaging

• spring-messaging

Data Access/Integration

• spring-jdbc
• spring-tx. programmatic and declarative transaction.
• spring-orm. O/R Mapping: JPA, JDO, Hibernate.
• spring-oxm. Object/XML Mapping: JAXB, Castor, XMLBeans, JiBX, XStream.
• spring-jms. Java Messaging Service. JMS support package, including helper classes to send and receive JMS messages

Web

• spring-web. Web support packages, including client and web remoting.
• spring-webmvc. MVC & REST implementation.
• spring-websocket. WebSocket and SockJS implementations, including STOMP support
• spring-webmvc-portlet

Test

• spring-test. Unit test and integration test. JUnit, TestNG. Mock objects.

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Spring Key Points

• Light weight Java EE framework
• Spring handles infrastructure, you focus on your application / business logic
• Apply enterprise services non-invasively to POJO
• Dependency Injection (DI)
• Inversion of Control (IoC)

Dependency Management Tools
* Maven
* Gradle
* Ivy

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