Spring framework needs no introduction for Java developers. Spring offers dependency injection as its core feature and provides many supporting modules such as Web MVC, persistence, AOP, and a huge number of integrations with popular projects.
Spring also integrates nicely with most IDEs and offers Spring Tool Suite (STS), which is an eclipse-based IDE for spring application development. In case of NetBeans, there's a NB Spring plugin, which enables support for spring-based development.
Spring Boot makes it very easy to get started with Spring-based projects. It sets up default configurations, and thus requires minimal to zero setup. It provides starter maven dependencies, which helps make the application production ready in ...
