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Jump Start Spring 2
It is always an exciting time when you first start to use a new software framework. Spring 2, indeed,
is an exciting software framework in its own right. However, it is also a fairly large framework. In
order to apply it effectively in your daily work you must first get some fundamental understanding
of the following issues:
❑ Why Spring exists
❑ What problem it is trying to solve
❑ How it works
❑ What new techniques or concepts it embraces
❑ How best to use it
This chapter attempts to get these points covered as quickly as possible and get you using the
Spring 2 framework on some code immediately. The following topics are covered in this chapter:
❑ A brief history of the Spring framework and design rationales
❑ A typical application of the Spring framework
❑ Wiring Java components to create applications using Spring
❑ Understanding Spring’s autowiring capabilities
❑ Understanding the inversion of control and dependency injection
❑ Understanding the available API modules of Spring 2
Having read this chapter, you will be equipped and ready to dive into specific areas of the Spring
framework that later chapters cover.
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