The Spring Framework is an open source application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform. It was originally created as an alternative to Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and aims to simplify enterprise Java development. The Spring Framework includes modules for core functionality, aspects, model-view-controller (MVC), and more. It utilizes dependency injection and inversion of control to decouple components. Spring is widely adopted and supported by a large community.

1. Spring Framework Sean Melody November 2, 2011

2. Introduction – Spring training?

4. Interface21 / Springsource now owned by VMWare

5. Apache 2.0 Licensed

6. Rich ecosystem of tools, frameworks and patterns

7. Widely adopted in Java community

8. Strong forum and large knowledge base on Stackoverflow.com

9. Life before Spring

11. Security

12. Web / MVC

13. Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)

14. Transaction Management

15. Springsource Tool Suite

17. Testing

18. Integration (EIP)

19. Batch processing

20. Messaging

21. Spring Roo

22. tcServer

24. Test first

25. Avoid coupling to Spring framework

26. Cross cutting concerns through simplified AOP

27. Convention over Configuration

28. Examples We're using Spring in SLI every day! Here's how: API Security, IoC container, Test Ingestion IoC container, Test DAL Spring Data, IoC Container, Test Databrowser Spring MVC, IoC, Test

32. <context:annotation-config />

34. Allows for swap-out of persistence technology if needed

37. Leverages the security namespace

38. More usage of Spring Security's permission evaluation coming in Sprint 3

41. http://www.springsource.org/