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<preface id="preface">
<title>Preface</title>
<para>Developing software applications is hard enough even with good tools
and technologies. Implementing applications using platforms which promise
everything but turn out to be heavy-weight, hard to control and not very
efficient during the development cycle makes it even harder. Spring provides
a light-weight solution for building enterprise-ready applications, while
still supporting the possibility of using declarative transaction
management, remote access to your logic using RMI or web services, and
various options for persisting your data to a database. Spring provides a
full-featured <link linkend="mvc-introduction">MVC framework</link>, and
transparent ways of integrating <link linkend="aop-introduction">AOP</link>
into your software.</para>
<para>Spring could potentially be a one-stop-shop for all your enterprise
applications; however, Spring is modular, allowing you to use just those
parts of it that you need, without having to bring in the rest. You can use
the IoC container, with Struts on top, but you could also choose to use just
the <link linkend="orm-hibernate">Hibernate integration code</link> or the
<link linkend="jdbc-introduction">JDBC abstraction layer</link>. Spring has
been (and continues to be) designed to be non-intrusive, meaning
dependencies on the framework itself are generally none (or absolutely
minimal, depending on the area of use).</para>
<para>This document provides a reference guide to Spring's features. Since
this document is still to be considered very much work-in-progress, if you
have any requests or comments, please post them on the user mailing list or
on the support forums at <ulink
url="http://forum.springframework.org/" />.</para>
<para>Before we go on, a few words of gratitude are due to Christian Bauer
(of the <ulink url="http://www.hibernate.org/">Hibernate</ulink> team), who
prepared and adapted the DocBook-XSL software in order to be able to create
Hibernate's reference guide, thus also allowing us to create this one. Also
thanks to Russell Healy for doing an extensive and valuable review of some
of the material.</para>
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