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<title>Preface</title> |
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<para>Developing software applications is hard enough even with good tools |
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and technologies. Implementing applications using platforms which promise |
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everything but turn out to be heavy-weight, hard to control and not very |
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efficient during the development cycle makes it even harder. Spring provides |
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a light-weight solution for building enterprise-ready applications, while |
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still supporting the possibility of using declarative transaction |
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management, remote access to your logic using RMI or web services, and |
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various options for persisting your data to a database. Spring provides a |
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full-featured <link linkend="mvc-introduction">MVC framework</link>, and |
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transparent ways of integrating <link linkend="aop-introduction">AOP</link> |
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into your software.</para> |
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<para>Spring could potentially be a one-stop-shop for all your enterprise |
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applications; however, Spring is modular, allowing you to use just those |
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parts of it that you need, without having to bring in the rest. You can use |
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the IoC container, with Struts on top, but you could also choose to use just |
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the <link linkend="orm-hibernate">Hibernate integration code</link> or the |
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<link linkend="jdbc-introduction">JDBC abstraction layer</link>. Spring has |
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been (and continues to be) designed to be non-intrusive, meaning |
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dependencies on the framework itself are generally none (or absolutely |
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minimal, depending on the area of use).</para> |
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<para>This document provides a reference guide to Spring's features. Since |
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this document is still to be considered very much work-in-progress, if you |
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have any requests or comments, please post them on the user mailing list or |
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on the support forums at <ulink |
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url="http://forum.springframework.org/" />.</para> |
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<para>Before we go on, a few words of gratitude are due to Christian Bauer |
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(of the <ulink url="http://www.hibernate.org/">Hibernate</ulink> team), who |
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prepared and adapted the DocBook-XSL software in order to be able to create |
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Hibernate's reference guide, thus also allowing us to create this one. Also |
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thanks to Russell Healy for doing an extensive and valuable review of some |
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of the material.</para> |
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