Spring

Spring is a lightweight framework. It can be thought of as a framework of frameworks because it provides support to various frameworks such as Struts, Hibernate, Tapestry, EJB, JSF, etc. The framework, in broader sense, can be defined as a structure where we find solution of the various technical problems. The Spring framework comprises several modules such as IOC, AOP, DAO, Context, ORM, WEB MVC, etc. We will learn these modules in next page. Let’s understand the IOC and Dependency Injection first.