Spring - Features

• It is light weight in terms of size and overhead i.e. it can be distributed in a jar file called
• spring.jar whose size is appro. 1 MB and processing overhead is negligible.
• JavaBeans are loosely coupled.
• Code is simple to write.
• Spring application is easy to maintain and to test.
• Declarative programming without J2EE.
• It works on Inversion of control.This means objects are passively given their dependencies instead of creating or looking for dependent objects.
• It comes with rich support of aspect oriented programming.
• Spring is a container in the sense it contains and manages the life cycle configuration of application object.