What are the features of Spring Framework?

1.	What are the features of Spring Framework?
Answer» Spring framework follows layered architecture pattern that helps in the NECESSARY components selection ALONG with providing a robust and cohesive framework for J2EE applications development. The AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) part of Spring supports unified development by ensuring separation of application’s business logic from other system services. Spring provides highly configurable MVC web application framework which has the ABILITY to switch to other frameworks easily. Provides provision of creation and MANAGEMENT of the configurations and defining the lifecycle of application objects. Spring has a special design principle which is known as IoC (Inversion of Control) that supports objects to give their dependencies rather than looking for creating dependent objects. Spring is a lightweight, java based, loosely coupled framework. Spring provides generic abstraction layer for transaction management that is also very useful for container-less environments. Spring provides a CONVENIENT API to translate technology-specific exceptions (thrown by JDBC, Hibernate or other frameworks) into consistent, unchecked exceptions. This introduces abstraction and greatly simplifies exception handling.

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