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Spring Framework
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**Abstract** Spring Framework
**Authors**  Walter Fan
**Status**   WIP as draft
**Updated**  |date|
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overview
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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.

Features
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* 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.


Inversion of Control (IoC) container
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Reference
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* https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/index.html