I have published a new article that introduces the Spring framework. Here are some excerpts from the introduction to the article:

“One of the more exciting open-source Java frameworks that has gathered steam in the last year is Spring. Spring aims to minimize dependency of application components by providing a plug-in architecture. Because Spring links objects together instead of the objects linking themselves together, it is categorized as a ‘dependency injection’ or ‘inversion of control’ framework.”

“Though dependency injection is the basis of the Spring framework, Spring also provides a rich set of tools built on top of its core dependency injection functionality. Spring provides an MVC framework, support for several presentation frameworks, a transaction management framework, DAO support, support for several O/R mapping tools, and more.”