Spring framework

Spring is a lightweight framework. It can be thought of as a framework of frameworks because it provides support to various frameworks such as Struts, Hibernate, Tapestry, EJB, JSF etc. The framework, in broader sense, can be defined as a structure where we find solution of the various technical problems.

Spring framework is an open source Java platform that provides comprehensive infrastructure support for developing robust Java applications very easily and very rapidly.

The main 4 key strategies of spring will simplify the development of an enterprise Java application.

1. Spring is light weight and It minimally invasive development with POJO.

2. Spring achieves the loose coupling through dependency injection and interface based programming.

3. Declarative programming through aspects and common conventions.

4. Boilerplate reduction through aspects and templates.

Above are the 4 key strategies of spring framework, which are simplifies the development of the Java enterprise application.

The Spring framework comprises several modules such as IOC, AOP, DAO, Context, ORM, WEB MVC etc. 

The following are some of the concepts with example in spring :-

• Inversion of Control (IoC) & Dependency Injection (DI) -Spring
• Types of Dependency Injection in Spring
• Spring: implementing factory pattern
• Spring MVC Tutorial

Stay tuned to read other concept of Spring framework.