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O Started 2002/2003 by Rod Johnson

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O Started as a Jramework developed
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O Spring 1.0 Released March 2004
O 2004/2005 Spring is emerging as a
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O Spring is NOT a J2EE application server

O Spring can integrate nicely with J2EE
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O Spring can, in many cases, elegantly replace
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O ·eJore Struts, everyone wrote their own Jront

controllers (or YIKES! put their controller logic in JSP)
O AJter Struts, the custom Jront controllers could be
thrown out
± Developers Jocus on solving business problems
± Productivity Gain!
O ·ut with Struts (and most oJ the other web
Jrameworks) you still have to write your own
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O Spring brings a consistent structure to your entire

application
O Spring provides a consistent way to glue your whole
application together
O Spring provides elegant integration points with
standard and deJacto-standard interJaces: Hibernate,
JDO, TopLink, EJ·, RMI, JNDI, JMS, ieb Services,
Struts, etc.
O Just as Struts did on the web tier, we can realize
huge productivity gains by not having to write the
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O Your application code should  depend on Spring
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O An AOP Framework
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O A Service Abstraction Layer
± Consistent integration with various standard and 3rd party APIs

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applications using POJOs.
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O Insulates you Jrom the underlying APIs
O Greater reusability
O Spring abstractions always consist oJ interJaces
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O ACEGI Security - comprehensive security services Jor the Spring
Framework
O Spring IDE - graphical user interJace Jor the conJiguration Jiles used by
the Spring Framework
O Spring ·eanDoc - tool that Jacilitates documentation and graphing oJ
Spring bean Jactories and application context Jiles
O XDoclet Spring Tags - support Jor generating Spring XML conJig Jiles
Jrom annotations in Java classes (you could also use JDK1.5
annotations to achieve this)
O Spring ieb Flow - Jor web applications with demanding page Jlow
requirements
O AppFuse Not really a tool or add-on, but AppFuse is Matt Raible's
project to jumpstart your Java web projects. It uses Spring at it's core
and studying it is a great way to learn about Spring.
O Spring Framework .NET ± Spring Clone Jor the Dark Side
  

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O ëuestions/Comments?
± Feedback is appreciated!
± Email me: roblambert@zabada.com

O ie¶re Hiring For A Few Positions

± Senior Java Developer
± Mid-level Java Developer
± Spring/Hibernate and other relevant Java technologies
± Let me know iJ you¶re interested: rlambert@schawk.com
 

O Thanks to the Spring Framework Team. See

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O Much oJ the content in this presentation was
inspired by presentations by Rod Johnson
and Craig ialls