The modules of spring framework are
- Web
- Test
- Spring Core Container
- AOP, Aspects and Instrumentation
- Data Access/Integration
List some of the Spring Framework Annotations?
Core Spring Framework Annotations
- @Required
- @Autowired
- @Qualifier
- @Configuration
- @Bean
- @Lazy
- @Value
Spring Framework Stereotype Annotations
- @Component
- @Controller
- @Service
- @Repository
Spring Boot Annotations
- @EnableAutoConfiguration
- @SpringBootApplication
Spring MVC and REST Annotations
- @RequestMapping
- @GetMapping
- @PostMapping
- @PutMapping
- @PatchMapping
- @DeleteMapping
- @ExceptionHandler
- @InitBinder
- @Mappings
- @Mapping
- @MatrixVariable
- @PathVariable
- @RequestAttribute
- @RequestBody
- @RequestHeader
- @RequestParam
- @RequestPart
- @ResponseBody
- @ResponseStatus
- @ControllerAdvice
- @RestController
- @RestControllerAdvice
- @SessionAttribute
- @SessionAttributes
- @CookieValue
- @Controller
- @CrossOrigin
Spring Cloud Annotations
- @EnableConfigServer
- @EnableEurekaServer
- @EnableDiscoveryClient
- @EnableCircuitBreaker
- @HystrixCommand
Spring Framework DataAccess Annotations
- @Transactional
Cache-Based Annotations
- @Cacheable
- @CachePut
- @CacheEvict
- @CacheConfig
Task Execution and Scheduling Annotations
- @Scheduled
- @Async
Spring Framework Testing Annotations
- @BootstrapWith
- @ContextConfiguration
- @WebAppConfiguration
- @Timed
- @Repeat
- @Commit
- @RollBack
- @DirtiesContext
- @BeforeTransaction
- @AfterTransaction
- @Sql
- @SqlConfig
- @SqlGroup
- @SpringBootTest
- @DataJpaTest
- @DataMongoTest
- @WebMVCTest
- @AutoConfigureMockMVC
- @MockBean
- @JsonTest
- @TestPropertySource
What is Spring Framework ?
The Spring Framework is an application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform. The framework’s core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java EE platform.
It is a lightweight, loosely coupled and integrated framework
How configuration metadata is provided to the Spring container?
Configuration metadata can be provided to Spring container in following ways:
- XML-Based configuration
- Annotation-Based configuration
- Java-based configuration
XML-Based configuration: In Spring Framework, the dependencies and the services needed by beans are specified in configuration files which are in XML format. These configuration files usually contain a lot of bean definitions and application specific configuration