White Paper: Spring – A Manager’s Overview

This white paper describes the core technologies that form the solid foundation of the Spring platform, and discusses the business value resulting from the use of Spring to build enterprise applications. Written expressly for technology managers, the white paper reviews a history of Spring and the core values that led to its creation. It offers a conceptual overview of the Spring Framework architecture, the relation of Spring to Java EE, and a review of the complete Spring Portfolio and the platforms that can run Spring. The white paper concludes with a discussion around the return on investment for using Spring and a list of case studies that successfully used Spring in large scale projects.