The Spring Framework provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications – on any kind of deployment platform.

A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the “plumbing” of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.

Support Policy and Migration

For information about minimum requirements, guidance on upgrading from earlier versions and support policies, please check out the official Spring Framework wiki page

Features

  • Core technologies: dependency injection, events, resources, i18n, validation, data binding, type conversion, SpEL, AOP.
  • Testing: mock objects, TestContext framework, Spring MVC Test, WebTestClient.
  • Data Access: transactions, DAO support, JDBC, ORM, Marshalling XML.
  • Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux web frameworks.
  • Integration: remoting, JMS, JCA, JMX, email, tasks, scheduling, cache and observability.
  • Languages: Kotlin, Groovy, dynamic languages.