I started using Spring framework few years back in 2009 to develop demo systems for some EU projects. These projects featured a number of Web services some of which share back-end databases and some other talk to external services or WS-BPEL business processes. The dependency injection implemented in Spring works so well and on top of that, many other parts like Spring MVC, data access, transactions messaging and even some third-party libraries such as Apache ActiveMQ, Apache CXF and JBoss (n...
