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Spring is a lightweight Java/J2EE application framework based on code published in "Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development" by Rod Johnson. It includes powerful JavaBeans-based configuration management applying Inversion-of-Control principles
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, a generic abstraction layer for transaction management allowing for pluggable transaction managers, a JDBC abstraction layer, integration with Hibernate, JDO, Apache OJB, and iBATIS SQL Maps, AOP functionality, and a flexible MVC Web application framework with multiple view technologies. There is also a .NET port available. [Less]
A collection of modules, add-ons and integration tools for the Spring Framework.
Reverspring is a Java library that allows you to create Spring IoC XML files from POJO at runtime, with detailed configuration about what to add in the descriptor and how to write it.
Spring-Annotation is a library that enables the use or annotations to configure your application using spring-framework as a backend.
In the next versions it will enable the use of standard Java EE annotations as an alternative way to configure your application, but without a need for a full Java EE 5 application server.