1. Spring Framework
Power to the POJO

2.
Current production release is 1.2.6
JavaBeans-based configuration
AOP framework
declarative transaction management
JDBC and Hibernate support
web MVC framework.
Sub projects: Spring Web Flow
Spring Security (Acegi)

3. New developments:
ending December 2005: release Spring SOAP
busy creating tag libraries to reduce verbose XML

4. Productivity Can compete with productivity of other RAD tools
2005 Dutch RAD Race:
#1. Magic e-Developer (Magic Hands) : 4GL
#2. Oracle Designer (Transfer Solutions) : 4GL
#3. Spring Framework (Xebia) : Java Open Source

5. Choice Use what you need Integration with: ORM frameworks
MVC frameworks
oa Struts, JSF
View technologies
oa JSP, Velocity, FreeMarker
Quartz
Jasper Reports

6. Comparison JHeadstart Spring Strong coupling Oracle classes ADF BC
Agnostic & clean
IoC, AOP
data access abstraction (Template classes)
Unit testing??
EasyMock (spring-mock.jar)
on-the-fly generation of mocks
record & playback style
Agile development??
Slices
Maintainability problematic
- customization defies regeneration
Flexibility, choice
Open Source integration
e.g.
Quick first delivery
Quick too

7. Demo