Spring Essential Overview Flashcards
1
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What is the Spring Framework?
A
An open source, lightweight, Dependency Injection Framework for building Java (enterprise) applications.
2
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What makes the Spring framework light weight?
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- Doesn’t require a Java EE App server
- Spring is not Invasive
- low overhead (jars < 8mb)
3
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What does it mean that the Spring Framework provides a Dependency inversion (DI) container
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- Object don’t need to worry about finding and connecting to each other
- Spring instantiates and injects dependencies into your objects
- Spring also serves as a lifecycle manager
4
Q
When was the first release of Spring?
A
2003
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