Spring - The Revolution

Spring is an open source application framework for java development. It makes the development of enterprise java applications pretty easy. Spring Framework has evolved as the king of frameworks with in a very short time.

Rod Johnson is the author of the first version of Spring.

We have couple of modules in Spring framework. Based on the user's requirement one can utilize or opt for the respective modules.

To name some of the modules in Spring:

Spring Core

Spring MVC

Spring AOP - Aspect Oriented Programming

Spring ORM Integration

Spring Transactions

Spring Web Flow

These are some of the common modules which are useful in most of the today's enterprise applications.

Going further, I will discuss about all these modules in detail.

Stay tuned.

Listen to Rod on the Spring evolution

As most of us know, Rod Johnson is the founder/father of the evolutionary Spring framework.

The Spring Framework began in February 2003, based on the Interface21 framework published with Rod's best-selling Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development. Rod is one of the world's leading authorities on Java and J2EE development. He is a best-selling author, experienced consultant, and open source developer, as well as a popular conference speaker.

Here in i am sharing a presentation by Rod Johnson. He discusses about the Spring Framework.

Topics covered include the philosophy behind Spring, configuring the Spring container, XML configuration, new XML configuration namespaces, Annotation-based configuration, automatic component annotation scanning, Spring JavaConfig, mixing configuration types, and Spring 2.5 new features.

source: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/johnson-configuring-spring