Spring Framework
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More about Spring https://www.baeldung.com/spring-tutorial
Why Use Spring
- Free to define application Architecture
- Helpfull with dev and test
- LightWeight container = class don't need interfaced to be loaded
Provide
- Web Applications
- RESTful services
- Secure your web applications
- Communicating with databases
- Handling long running jobs
- Handle external resources or systems you have to work with.
- Testing purposes
- Standalone java projects
- Convert your application into an executable
- Integrate Social Media into your applications
- Quick prototype
- To get Started
Technical
- Loose Coupling - {@Component class > private param interface @Autowired} + {Interface > public param} + {Child class Implement}
- Dependency Injection = instanciate Beans and wire dependancies = Spring do it automatically because of the annotation @Autowired
- Better Unit Test
Spring Modules
Makes the code easy to write
- JDBC
- MVC
- AOP
- ORM
- JMS
- Test
Very good at integrating other Frameworks
- Hibernate (ORM)
- iBatis (Object Mapping)
- Junit & Mockit (Test)
More
- Let programmer focus on business logic
- key feature is dependency management
- enables testability
- inversion of control
- application context (bean factory)