The Spring Framework

As a result of my research into Hibernate that I’ve been doing over the last couple of weeks, I can across enough references to the Spring Framework for me finally to give it a look. I was quickly hit by the wealth of information out there, however nothing really provides a good concise overview – the Spring Framework tutorial for example is a 48 page PDF which gives an overview of each package in turn – not my idea of a tutorial at all. There seems to be an inordinate amount of waffle on the subject – looking at the petclinic example in the distribution, I can understand some of Spring’s power, but at the same time it can be very confusing. I’m fairly sure I can come up with a more concise getting started guide, which I’m going to aim to do over the next week or so.

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7 Responses to “The Spring Framework”

1. On November 20, 2003 at 6:04 am Yasuhiko wrote:

have you looked into the ‘step-by-step’ tutorial available at
http://www.springframework.org/docs/MVC-step-by-step/Spring-MVC-step-by-step.html
?

2. On November 20, 2003 at 10:18 am Sam Newman wrote:

Yes, I found that walkthrough recently. I would of prefered something which gave a ‘block-diagram’ view of the MVC arcitecture. Its making sense to me now – much of the confusion was bought about by the petclinic example that comes with the distribution. The problem is I’m historically a struts user, and struts user forms objects are very beasts. In Spring a form is almost doing the job of the action class as well. I’m thinking about renaming my Spring web-form’s ‘handlers’ or something to avoid the confusion – dealing with 2 frameworks at work, and 2-3 completely different ones at home, is getting a bit much…

3. On June 7, 2004 at 8:02 pm Michael Franz wrote:

Sam,

What are your feelings about Spring now? It has been 7 months? I am a struts user and evaluting Spring for some future work. I have found the concepts hard (being somewhat biased).

Michael

4. On June 8, 2004 at 2:58 pm Sam Newman wrote:

Well, to summarise a few points at once:

IoC is not new – its just plain good sense
You don’t need Spring or Pico to make IoC work, but it helps
If you want to embed an IoC type container in your own code and use nothing apart from your own code, Pico is a good choice as its damn small
If you want to use an IoC framework with third party API’s, Spring is excellent

Hope that helps!

5. On October 24, 2004 at 3:13 pm R Olsen wrote:

You can find number of good “hello world” examples of spring at:

http://gabriel.jarchitect.org/spring/index.html

6. On April 26, 2005 at 3:11 pm Jez wrote:

the above seems to have been moved to http://www.jarchitect.org/web/document.php?id=1

7. On June 30, 2005 at 4:27 pm Berlin Brown wrote:

Try my tutorial.

http://www.newspiritcompany.com/withspring.html

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