Chapter 2. What's New in Spring 3.0?
Spring 3.0 is upon us. It marks an evolution of a framework that revitalized the state of enterprise Java forever. Since its debut, Spring has had decidedly ambitious goals, not the least of which was to simplify enterprise Java development. It attempted this before Ruby on Rails, Django, and Scala came out of the woodwork. The framework has in many ways shaped the evolution of Java and contributed to a change of mindset in the Java community at large.
When the first version debuted, it featured simple, common-sense libraries that tied together otherwise boilerplate idioms and reduced them to their simplest elements, as reusable libraries. It built these abstractions on top of a solid, Plain Old Java Object ...
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