Chapter 1. Introducing Spring

When we think of the community of Java developers, we are reminded of the hordes of gold rush prospectors of the late 1840s, frantically panning the rivers of North America looking for fragments of gold. As Java developers, our rivers run rife with open source projects, but, like the prospectors, finding a useful project can be time consuming and arduous. And yet, more and more developers are turning to open source tools and code. Open source brings innovative code and few restrictions on its usage, allowing developers to focus on the core of the applications they build.

A common gripe about many open source Java projects is that they exist merely to fill a gap in the implementation of the latest buzzword-heavy technology ...

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