Spring framework

Table of Contents

Spring Framework Documentation
What is Spring Framework?
What are the Advantages of Spring Framework?
Spring Common application properties
Tags

Spring Framework Documentation

Spring Framework Documentation: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/reference/html/index.html

Overview - history, design philosophy, feedback, getting started : https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/reference/html/overview.html#overview

Core - IoC Container, Events, Resources, i18n, Validation, Data Binding, Type Conversion, SpEL, AOP : https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/reference/html/core.html

Data Access - Transactions, DAO Support, JDBC, R2DBC, O/R Mapping, XML Marshalling: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/reference/html/data-access.html#spring-data-tier

Web Servlet - Spring MVC, WebSocket, SockJS, STOMP Messaging: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/reference/html/web.html#spring-web

Web Reactive - Spring WebFlux, WebClient, WebSocket, RSocket: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/reference/html/web-reactive.html#spring-webflux

Integration - Remoting, JMS, JCA, JMX, Email, Tasks, Scheduling, Caching: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/reference/html/integration.html#spring-integration

Languages - Kotlin, Groovy, Dynamic Languages: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/reference/html/languages.html#languages

Appendix - Spring properties: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/reference/html/appendix.html#appendix

Wiki - What’s New, Upgrade Notes, Supported Versions, and other cross-version information: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/wiki

Official website: https://spring.io/projects

What is Spring Framework?

Spring makes programming Java quicker, easier, and safer for everybody. Spring’s focus on speed, simplicity, and productivity has made it the world’s most popular Java framework.

Spring can be used for developing anything from simple web applications to enterprise-class cloud applications and microservices.

Spring provides comprehensive infrastructure support for developing applications with complex requirements and designs.

Spring framework handles the infrastructure part (using dependency injection), so the developers can focus on the application’s core functionality.

Spring framework contains formalized design patterns as first-class objects that developers can integrate into our application(s) without worrying too much about how they work in the backend.

What are the Advantages of Spring Framework?

With Dependency Injection (DI) pattern, application dependencies are explicitely declared and maintained.
IoC containers tend to be lightweight, especially when compared to EJB containers. This is beneficial for developing and deploying Spring applications on computers with limited memory and CPU resources.
Spring does not reinvent the wheel, instead, it truly makes use of some of the existing technologies like several ORM frameworks, logging frameworks, JMS and, other view technologies.
Spring is organized in a modular fashion and even though the number of packages and classes are substantial, we have to worry about only those dependencies we need and we can ignore the rest.
Testing a Spring application is simple because the environment-dependent code is managed by the framework. Further, by using java beans style POJOs, it becomes easier to use dependency injection for injecting test data.
Spring’s web framework is a well-designed web MVC framework, which provides a great alternative to web frameworks such as Struts or other over engineered or less popular web frameworks.
Spring provides a consistent transaction management interface that can scale down to a local transaction (using a single database, for example) and scale up to global transactions (using JTA, for example).