Spring reference

Reference Documentation

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Spring Framework

Table of Contents
I. Overview of Spring Framework..............................................................................................1 1. Introduction to Spring Framework ..................................................................................2 1.1. Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control ....................................................2 1.2. Modules............................................................................................................3 Core Container .................................................................................................3 Data Access/Integration ....................................................................................3 Web .................................................................................................................4 AOP and Instrumentation..................................................................................4 Test .................................................................................................................4 1.3. Usage scenarios .................................................................................................5 Dependency Management and Naming Conventions...........................................6 Spring Dependencies and Depending on Spring ..........................................8 Maven Dependency Management ..............................................................8 Ivy Dependency Management .................................................................10 Logging.........................................................................................................10 Not Using Commons Logging .................................................................11 Using SLF4J ..........................................................................................11 Using Log4J ...........................................................................................13 II. What's New in Spring 3.0...................................................................................................15 2. New Features and Enhancements in Spring 3.0 .............................................................16 2.1. Java 5 ..............................................................................................................16 2.2. Improved documentation ..................................................................................162.3. New articles and tutorials ..................................................................................16 2.4. New module organization and build system .......................................................17 2.5. Overview of new features .................................................................................18 Core APIs updated for Java 5..........................................................................19 Spring Expression Language ...........................................................................19 The Inversion of Control (IoC) container ..........................................................20 Java based bean metadata ........................................................................20 Defining bean metadata within components...