Spring is a popular heavy-weight framework for developing Java/Groovy based applications. Its rich libraries and software stack can cover from front-end to back-end development. In 2009 I used Spring Framework 3 to develop web services and MVC + Hibernate portal for a fictious loan approval process. Despite a tad steep learning-curve, I could manage to get the services and portal up and running and integrated with third-party libraries quite smoothly. In my prevous projects, I mostly used Spr...
