Appendix A. Solutions to Exercises
Chapter 1, Introducing the Spring Framework
Q1. What is Spring?
Spring is an open-source framework created by Rod Johnson. He addressed the complexity of enterprise application development, and described a simpler, alternative approach in his book Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development, Wrox. Spring is a lightweight inversion of control and aspect-oriented container framework. Any Java EE application can benefit from the Spring Framework, in terms of simplicity, loose coupling, and testability.
Spring is modular, allowing you to use only those parts that you need without having to bring in extra complexity. The Spring Framework can be used either for all layer implementations or for the development of particular ...
Get Spring: Developing Java Applications for the Enterprise now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
