What are benefits of using spring?

Following is the list of few of the great benefits of using Spring Framework: Lightweight: Spring is lightweight when it comes to size and transparency. The basic version of spring framework is around 2MB. Inversion of control IOC: Loose coupling is achieved in spring using the technique Inversion of Control. The objects give their dependencies instead of creating or looking for dependent objects. Aspect oriented AOP: Spring supports Aspect oriented programming and enables cohesive development by separating application business logic from system services. Container: Spring contains and manages the life cycle and configuration of application objects. MVC Framework: Spring's web framework is a well-designed web MVC framework, which provides a great alternative to web frameworks such as Struts or other over engineered or less popular web frameworks. Transaction Management: Spring provides a consistent transaction management interface that can scale down to a local transaction usingasingledatabase, forexample and scale up to global transactions usingJTA, forexample. Exception Handling: Spring provides a convenient API to translate technology-specific exceptions thrownbyJDBC, Hibernate, orJDO, forexample into consistent, unchecked exceptions.