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April 05

Prof. Ismael H. F. Santos - ismael@tecgraf.puc-rio.br 2

Spring Framework Mission Statement (continued)

nThe authors of Spring aim that:

nSpring should be a pleasure to use

nYour application code should not depend on Spring APIs

nSpring should not compete with good existing solutions, but should foster integration. (For example, JDO and Hibernate are great O/R mapping solutions. We don't need to develop another one.)

nSpring == J2EE Application Server?

nSpring is NOT a J2EE application server

nSpring can integrate nicely with J2EE application servers (or any Java environment)

nSpring can, in many cases, elegantly replace services traditionally provided by J2EE application servers