Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options not deleted user 30958

Spring is a module based open source framework to build robust Java / Java EE applications.

20 votes

What does the Spring framework do? Should I use it? Why or why not?

For why you want to use Spring, you can read this article (archived). In summary: J2EE applications tend to contain excessive amounts of "plumbing" code. … Of course, if your business requirements dictate a distributed architecture, you need to implement a distributed architecture and accept the trade-off that incurs (and Spring offers features to help in …
Rudy's user avatar
  • 1,109