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= Core Technologies
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This part of the reference documentation covers all the technologies that are
absolutely integral to the Spring Framework.

Foremost amongst these is the Spring Framework's Inversion of Control (IoC) container. A
thorough treatment of the Spring Framework's IoC container is closely followed by
comprehensive coverage of Spring's Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) technologies. The
Spring Framework has its own AOP framework, which is conceptually easy to understand
and which successfully addresses the 80% sweet spot of AOP requirements in Java
enterprise programming.

Coverage of Spring's integration with AspectJ (currently the richest -- in terms of
features -- and certainly most mature AOP implementation in the Java enterprise space) is
also provided.

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