Spring: Creating Objects So You Don't Have To

ne of the more exciting open-source Java frameworks that has gathered steam in the last year is Spring. Spring aims to minimize dependency of application components by providing a plug-in architecture. Because Spring links objects together instead of the objects linking themselves together, it is categorized as a 'dependency injection' or 'inversion of control' framework.

Spring's object linking is defined in XML files, thus you can plug-in different components during runtime, or for different application configurations. This is particularly useful for applications that do unit testing or applications that deploy different configurations for different customers.

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Spring: Creating Objects So You Don't Have To

As a dependency injection framework (not to mention one of the more popular open source Java projects today), Spring links objects together using XML definitions. Find out about Spring and the ways you can invert control in your object programming.