Spring Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition

© Paul Fisher and Brian D. Murphy 2016

Paul Fisher and Brian D. Murphy, Spring Persistence with Hibernate, 10.1007/978-1-4842-0268-5_2

2. Spring Basics

Paul Fisher¹  and Brian D. Murphy²

(1)Brookyln, New York, USA

(2)Maplewood, New Jersey, USA

The Spring Framework has its origins in the companion code for Rod Johnson’s book, Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development (Wrox, 2002). The book developed a strong following of developers, who used the Wrox forums to discuss both the book and the corresponding code. Two of those developers, Juergen Hoeller and Yann Caroff, persuaded Rod to turn the code into an open source project. The book referred to the framework as the Interface21 framework, because Rod felt that it represented the future of enterprise ...