Spring Framework

External

• https://spring.io/projects/spring-framework
• https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/5.1.0.RELEASE/spring-framework-reference/
• JavaDoc https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/javadoc-api/
• Spring Framework releases: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/spring/platform/platform-bom/

Internal

• Spring

Overview

The core Spring Framework is the foundation of everything else in the Spring-based development model. It provides the core container and dependency injection framework, and many other features such as Spring MVC, data access, basic persistence support in form of the JdbcTemplate, integration, support for reactive-style programming, etc. Spring Data extends the persistence capabilities outside the core framework, as a separate project.

Functionality

• Basic Persistence
  • JdbcTemplate

• Servlet-based Web Application Support
  • Spring MVC
  • WebSocket, SockJS and STOMP Messaging support

• Reactive Web Application Support
  • Spring WebFlux

• Spring Retry
• Spring Messaging

Spring Framework Core Technologies Concepts

• Spring Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control Container Concepts
• Spring Property Injection Concepts
• Spring Framework Testing Concepts
• Spring Framework Event Handling
• Spring MVC Concepts
• Spring REST Concepts
• Reactive Support in the Spring Framework
• Spring Transaction Management
• Spring Validation Concepts
• Spring Persistence Concepts
• Spring Logging
• TO PROCESS until all Spring Concepts are depleted: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/core.html

Spring Framework Dependency Management

All Spring Framework components are specified by Maven BOMs, available here:

List of Released Maven BOMs on Maven Central

If Maven is used for building the project, the BOM support is built-in, so the BOM can be specified straight in the dependency section of the POM file. In Gradle, at least at the time of the writing, that is not possible, so we need to use a specialized Spring dependency management plugin. This section describes how to configure and use it:

Gradle Spring dependency-management Plugin

Note that Spring Boot has a different dependency mechanism.

TO DISTRIBUTE

Spring Framework Core Technologies

SpEL

Spring Expression Language (SpEL)

Spring Framework Data Access

TO PROCESS https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/data-access.html#spring-data-tier

Integration

TO PROCESS https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/integration.html#spring-integration

Cache

TODO: https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/integration.html#cache, https://spring.io/guides/gs/caching/