Chapter 1. Spring at Glance
According to Yann, who was among the first readers of the framework, Spring is the fresh new start after the winter of traditional J2EE. The Spring Framework provides a complete solution to most of the problems that occur in handling the development of numerous complex modules collaborating with each other in a Java enterprise application. Spring is not a replacement for the traditional Java Development, but it is a reliable solution for companies to withstand in today's competitive and fast-growing market without forcing the developers to be tightly coupled on Spring APIs.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Introduction to the Spring Framework
- Problems addressed by Spring in enterprise application development
- Spring road map
- What's new in Spring 5.0