April 05
Prof. Ismael H. F. Santos -  ismael@tecgraf.puc-rio.br                                                          2
What is the Spring Framework?
nSpring is a Lightweight Application Framework
nWhere Struts, WebWork and others can be considered Web frameworks, Spring addresses all tiers of an application
nSpring provides the plumbing so that you don’t have to!
nThe Spring Framework is a layered Java/J2EE application framework based on code published in Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development. The Spring Framework provides a simple approach to development that does away with numerous properties files and helper classes littering the codebase.                                          -> en.wikipedia.org