Introduction

The Spring Framework provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform. A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.

Features

Dependency Injection
Aspect-Oriented Programming including Spring's declarative transaction management
Spring MVC web application and RESTful web service framework
Foundational support for JDBC, JPA, JMS
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