Pro Spring 5: An In-Depth Guide to the Spring Framework and Its Tools

© Iuliana Cosmina, Rob Harrop, Chris Schaefer, and Clarence Ho 2017

Iuliana Cosmina, Rob Harrop, Chris Schaefer and Clarence HoPro Spring 5https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2808-1_1

1. Introducing Spring

Iuliana Cosmina¹ , Rob Harrop², Chris Schaefer³ and Clarence Ho⁴

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Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

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Reddish, UK

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Venice, Florida, USA

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Hong Kong, China

 

When we think of the community of Java developers , we are reminded of the hordes of gold rush prospectors of the late 1840s, frantically panning the rivers of North America, looking for fragments of gold. As Java developers, our rivers run rife with open source projects, but, like the prospectors, finding a useful project can be time-consuming and arduous.

A common gripe with many open source Java projects ...