Summary

In this chapter, we

• Got a clear understanding of what the Spring Framework is, its fundamental concepts, how it is organized, and the many benefits of using this framework.

• Learned about basic Spring concepts such as dependency injection, beans and bean factory, application context, property editors, and more.

• Understood how the Spring Framework is packaged, from development and deployment perspectives.

We covered a lot of material in this chapter on the fundamentals of the Spring Framework. In the next chapter, we will take a closer look at Spring's web-related modules. In later chapters, we will also take a look at the following features of Spring:

• Declarative transaction management

• Scheduling jobs

• Sending emails

Now it is time to develop a couple of Time Expression's screens using the Spring Web MVC Framework!

One last note before we move on:You might have noticed that the Spring Reference Documentation was mentioned multiple times. This is a well-written document. However, if you cannot find the information you are looking for in there, try the Spring Framework API JavaDocs, which are well documented and complement the reference documentation quite nicely.