Introduction
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
Dependency Injection
Aspect-Oriented Programming including Spring's declarative transaction management
Spring MVC web application and RESTful web service framework
Foundational support for JDBC, JPA, JMS
Much more…
All avaible features and modules are described in
the Modules section of the reference documentation.
Their maven/gradle coordinates are also described there.
Minimum requirements
JDK 6+ for Spring Framework 4.x
JDK 5+ for Spring Framework 3.x