Spring Application Framework

Finally, I've found time to look at this thing. I've been hearing about Spring for a year or so. It's a component framework.

I started porting my components in the current project to Spring. It's pretty flexible and doesn't require your components be aware of the Spring framework. One thing is missing: proper life cycle management. Spring manages life cycle only for single-ton components. It doesn't have it's own instance pools, unfortunately.

I'm going to look at its database and transactions stuff. It look interesting, maybe my home grown database layer could be ported to Spring.