What are the Advantages of Spring Framework

Advantages of Spring Framework:

1.    The Spring framework addresses most of the infrastructure functionalities of the Enterprise applications. Following are the few major advantages of Spring Framework.

2.    Spring enables the developers to develop the enterprise applications using POJOs (Plain Old Java Object). The benefit of developing the applications using POJO is, that we do not need to have an enterprise container such as an application server but we have the option of using a robust servlet container.

3.    Spring comes with some of the existing technologies like ORM framework, logging framework, J2EE and JDK Timers etc, Hence we don’t need to integrate explicitly those technologies.

4.    Spring WEB framework has a well-designed  web MVC framework, which provides a great alternate to web framework.

5.    Spring can eliminate the creation of the singleton and factory classes.

6.    Spring framework is both complete and modular, because spring framework has a layered architecture.

7.    Spring provides a consistent transaction management interface that can scale down to a local transaction and scale up to global transactions (using JTA).

8.    Spring framework includes support for managing business objects and exposing their services to the presentation tier components, so that the web and desktop applications can access the same objects.

9.    Spring framework has taken the best practice that have been proven over the years in several applications and formalized as design patterns.

10. Spring application can be used for the development of different kind of applications, like standalone applications, standalone GUI applications, Web applications and applets as well.

11. And more over the Spring framework consists of features organized into about 20 modules, these modules are grouped into Core Container, Data Access/Integration, Web, AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming ), Instrumentation and Test.