Spring is perhaps the best of the component-based frameworks that emerged at the turn of the 21st century. It vastly improves the way that developers write and deliver infrastructure code in Java-based applications. Since its inception, Spring has been recognized as a leading framework for enterprise Java development. As an end-to-end application framework, Spring mirrors some of the Java EE capabilities , but it offers a combination of features and programming conventions you won’t find elsewhere.
This article introduces Spring and its core programming philosophy and methodology: Inversion of control and dependency injection. You’ll also get started with Spring annotations and a couple of hands-on coding examples.
