What is Spring Framework? What does it mean to J2EE developers #Java Short Notes

What is Spring Framework? What does it mean to J2EE developers?

Spring is a light-weight framework, very often referred as an alternative/competitor to EJB, for the development of enterprise-type applications.

Spring provides many features such as declarative transaction management, access to remote logic using RMI or web services, mailing facilities and

database abstraction.

Features of Spring Framework

Transaction Management: A generic abstraction layer for transaction management that removes low-level interactions
JDBC Exception Handling: An exception hierarchy to simplify the error handling strategy
Integration with Hibernate, JDO, and iBATIS
AOP Framework: Aspect Oriented Programming Framework
MVC Framework: Spring provides MVC web application framework built on core Spring functionality

Spring Architecture

Spring AOP: Provides declarative enterprise services such as declarative transaction management
Spring ORM: Provides integration layers for object-relational mapping APIs, including JDO, Hibernate and iBatis for database access.
Spring Web: Provides web application development stack that includes Spring MVC.
Spring DAO: Provides standardization to data access using the technologies like JDBC, Hibernate or JDO.
Spring Context: Provides support for using message sources, and resources. It is based on Java bean.
Spring Web MVC: Provides MVC for web applications.
Spring Core: Provides Dependency Injection features

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