Developing enterprise applications ain't easy. You not only have to worry about constantly evolving business logic, but also need to address infrastructure concerns ranging from transaction management and security to manageability and integration with diverse external applications. Spring, the most popular lightweight enterprise application framework, comes to the rescue by simplifying the common needs of enterprise applications. This session (part 1 of 2) presents the core concepts of the Spring Framework.

In this session we discuss the motivations behind the Spring way of creating enterprise applications. We cover the core ideas such as POJOs, dependency injection, container configuration, aspect-oriented programming, and portable abstraction layers. We also show how all of these concepts work together using a simple application. By the end of this session, you will have a clear idea of what Spring is and what it can do for you.