What is the role of Spring in Struts + Spring + Hibernate?

hibernate, java, spring, struts

Solution

Spring provides many different "modules" and different programmers will use different parts of Spring.

However, commonly in this sort of stack, you will see Spring being used as a provider of

- An inversion of control container for dependency injection

- An abstraction to Hibernate called "HibernateTemplate"

- Framework classes for simplifying Aspect Oriented Programming

- Transaction support, often "declaratively" via the IoC container and AOP.

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