The spring is an Open
source frame work. The first version was written by Rod Johnson, The framework
was first released under the Apache 2.0 license in June 2003. The first milestone release, 1.0, was released in March
2004.In spring it has own container called IOC
(Inversion of Control Container) for the java platform. Spring is an
alternative for EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) model.
Developers: Pivotal
Software Company
First Release: 1 October
2002
Type: Application Framework
Written In: Java
Platform: Java Virtual
Machine
Operating System: Cross
Platform
Website: www.spring.io