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Spring Framework

Homepage

http://www.springsource.org/spring-framework

Latest release

3.2.2 (14/03/2013)

Developed by

SpringSource

Licenses

Apache 2.0

Overall rating

8.5
Usability
8.6
Simplicity
7.5
Documentation
8.7
Community
8.7

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The Spring Framework provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform. A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.

Spring includes:

  • Flexible dependency injection with XML and annotation-based configuration styles
  • Advanced support for aspect-oriented programming with proxy-based and AspectJ-based variants
  • Support for declarative transactions, declarative caching, declarative validation, and declarative formatting
  • Powerful abstractions for working with common Java EE specifications such as JDBC, JPA, JTA and JMS
  • First-class support for common open source frameworks such as Hibernate and Quartz
  • A flexible web framework for building RESTful MVC applications and service endpoints
  • Rich testing facilities for unit tests as well as for integration tests

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Start: 2013-05-28 10:00 End: 2013-05-28 11:00 Timezone: US/Pacific Start: 2013-05-28 10:00 End: 2013-05-28 11:00 Timezone: US/Pacific .event-nodeapi, .submitted {display:none} Broadleaf Commerce is an eCommerce framework largely based on Spring. In the latest version 3.0, Broadleaf migrated its admin console from GWT to a Spring / Spring M...
Start: 2013-05-16 10:00 End: 2013-05-16 11:00 Timezone: US/Pacific Start: 2013-05-16 10:00 End: 2013-05-16 11:00 Timezone: US/Pacific .event-nodeapi, .submitted {display:none} Today, there are several trends that are forcing application architectures to evolve. Users expect a rich, interactive and dynamic user experience on a wide variety...
This Week in Spring - 7 May, 2013 Welcome to An Epic Week in Spring! Lots of new sessions have been posted to SpringOne Conference, so head over to the site and check out the featured sessions! We'll have the agenda grid online before the end of May. Featured SpringOne2GX 2013 sessions accepted! Tackling Big Data Complexity with Spring (Mark Fisher and Mark Pollack) Reactor...
Spring Integration in the Wild Few companies have been quite at the forefront of implementing Spring Integration (Batch & Data etc.) as Incept5, this year's VMWare EMEA cloud partner. John will cover a few of the more interesting implementations from an architectural point of view, looking at the choices, the reasoning, design and some of the issues behind the implementations. Fro...
Many of you may have heard about Pramati's acquisition of WaveMaker assets from VMware, and we wanted to officially wish them well here.   However, one of WaveMaker’s users, in response to the news of the upcoming transition, already expressed the sentiment eloquently: “WaveMaker is by far the best tool I have had the pleasure to use for building real world business apps ...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover this week, as usual, so let's get to it. Did you miss last week's Pivotal public launch? Catch the replay and learn about GE's investment in the new entity! Pivotal's mission is about bringing consumer-grade software to the enterprise -- where open source technology like Spring, Groovy, Grails, RabbitMQ, Red...
Building for Performance with Spring Integration & Spring Batch Spring Integration & Spring Batch greatly simplify the process of developing enterprise integration architectures and messaging systems. This session covers architectural patterns and real world examples showing how comprehensive the capabilities of Spring Integration & Batch are, while being lightweight enough ...
We're pleased to an announce the GA release of Spring Security 3.1.4 The release is available from the Spring Community Downloads area and jars are available from Maven central repository. See the project website for more information. This is a maintenance release with a number of bug fixes including OSGi support for Spring 3.2. Changelog | Download | Reference Manual | FAQ
Welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! Here in San Francisco, we're experiencing the first fits of life and beautiful weather typical of spring time. Fitting, too, as things are busy-as-can-be in the Pivotal open source communities - including Cloud Foundry and SpringSource - as we march towards the Pivotal Initiative launch on April 24th. See you then! Without further...
Implementing Domain-Driven Design with Spring and vFabric Sponsored by EMC Consulting, this presentation highlights the use of Domain-Driven Design in a cloud-based, distributed architecture. There are several working examples of highly scalable DDD models featuring the NYSE Nanotrader system. NanoTrader is a VMWare working reference implementation featuring SpringSource best-practice...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been an exciting week for Spring at Pivotal, which you can hear more about at the re-scheduled Pivotal launch event on April 24th. In case you are reading too fast, Pivotal has re-scheduled the launch event to April 24th. Register here! Arjen Poutsma has announced Spring Web Services 2.1.3.RELEASE. The new release mainly consists...
Cloud Foundry Architecture If you have deployed applications on Cloud Foundry, you know how easy it is to push an app, bind services to it, and scale it. There are more magical things behind the scenes. Did you know, for example, that cloudfoundry.com is updated approximately twice a week? Each update included small changes such as a bug fix or a new feature, but often large changes s...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it! SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer outlines the direction and momentum of SpringSource and the Spring projects under the Pivotal Initiative, a new company spun out of EMC comprised of - among other things - SpringSource, Cloud Foundry, and GreenPlum. This is definitely...
Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Applications This session shares many of the production proven methods of running Java on vSphere. Covering how to size JVMs, and VMs for large scale deployments. The session will have a special section on GC tuning and show how a wide range of JVMs can be tuned using a GC recipe developed over the past 15 years of actual field experience in tuni...
We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 2.2.0.RC1 is now available via the SpringSource Milestone repository. Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation Support for Spring Data Spring Data is a collection of projects intended to make it easier to develop Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases. Based on a model of ...
Dear Spring Community, We are happy to announce the release of Spring Mobile 1.1.0.M3! Spring Mobile provides extensions to Spring MVC that aid in the development of cross-platform mobile web applications. This release adds simpler configuration when using a custom domain strategy with SiteSwitcherHandlerInterceptor. Kindle Fire devices are now detected as tablet or mobile depending on which mo...
This Week in Spring Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring ! I've just returned from Devoxx UK and Devoxx France where I was very happy to talk to developers using Spring from all walks of industry. I also spoke at Skills Matter in London on building web applications using Spring. Thanks to Skills Matter, the London Spring User Group, and to the amazing Rob Harrop for havin...
Getting Started with Spring Security 3.1 Spring Security is a framework that focuses on providing both authentication and authorization to Java applications. Like all Spring projects, the real power of Spring Security is found in how easily it can be extended to meet custom requirements. In this presentation Rob will incrementally apply Spring Security to an existing application to de...
Join David Turanski (SpringSource) and Damien Dallimore (Splunk) as they discuss and demonstrate Splunk and Spring Integration. Spring Integration provides a number of adapters out of the box to support various transports, such as JMS, File, HTTP, Web Services, and Mail. They will introduce the Splunk channel adapter, a new entry to the out of the box adapters available for Spring Integration, whi...
We are pleased to announce that the first milestone release for Spring-AMQP is now available. Project Home Page Release Notes
Today as an example we will take a very simple scenario: placing an order stores it and sends an e-mail about that order:@Serviceclass OrderService @Autowired() (orderDao: OrderDao, mailNotifier: OrderMailNotifier) { @Transactional def placeOrder(order: Order) { orderDao save order mailNotifier sendMail order }}So far so good, but e-mail functionality has nothing...
We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 2.2.3.RELEASE is now available. For links to downloads and documentation, see the project home page This release corrects an issue with the conversion of some complex message payloads when being mapped to method arguments, as well as a few other minor issues. Release Notes.
Dear Spring Community, Today we’re excited to announce that rest.js is now part of Cujo.js and that rest.js 0.9 has been released. https://github.com/cujojs/rest rest.js is a RESTful HTTP client. It goes far beyond the typical XMLHttpRequest abstraction developers are accustomed to in other frameworks. rest.js is built upon composable interceptors that incrementally add new functionality to a cl...
Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, there's a lot of Spring Tool Suite news, so be sure to check out the new release and try it out. One last reminder: be sure to join me Thursday for a webinar introducing Spring's REST and mobile support at 3:00PM GMT (for Europeans) and 10:00AM PST (for North America). If you've wanted to learn how to build mobile ...
Addressing Messaging Challenges Using Open Technologies For Modern Applications Many businesses are faced with some new messaging challenges for modern applications, such as horizontal scalability of the messaging tier, heterogeneous messaging systems and access methods, and extreme transaction processing. This presentation/demo will cover how businesses can overcome these messaging c...

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Spring saves time and makes Java fun again.  It has a huge friendly community and great documentation.

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solid framework !!!

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I'm relatively new to Spring, and while I enjoy the power of the framework and surrounding extensions, I'm continually frustrated by the obtuse configuration and numerous ways to do things. Spring is the de facto framework for many other projects, so it pays to become familiar with it.

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Much simpler than JEE but sometimes could have but even simpler and yet more lightweight itself.

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