Spring Framework is a powerful lightweight application development framework used for Enterprise Java (JEE)
- Modular Framework
- Light Weight
- End to End Development
- Inversion of Control – Spring container takes care of wiring dependencies of various objects
- IoC Container – It manages Spring Bean life cycle and project specific configurations
- Aspect Oriented programming – Spring supports AOP to separate business logic from system services for cross cutting concerns Containers
- MVC Framework – This is used to create web applications or RESTful web services, capable of returning XML/JSON responses
- Transaction Management – Reduces the amount of boiler-plate code in JDBC operations, file uploading, etc., either by using Java annotations or by Spring Bean XML configuration file
- Abstract Layer for JDBC
- Easy Integration with Framework Struts, JSF, Hibernate etc.
- Exception Handling – Spring provides a convenient API for translating technology-specific exceptions into unchecked exceptions
- Easy to Test
