Spring Simple Powerful Proven

Spring 2.0 has just been released. Ironically the same day we make a strategic decision to use Spring widely in new and existing projects.

The key benefits (unordered):

• Modular Development
  
• JSP Shortcuts
  
• Best of Breed AOP
  
• JMS Processing Support
  
• Scripting Support
  
• Tight Scheduler Integration
  
• Transaction Support
  
• Enterprise Ready
  
• Easy Configuration
  
• Annotation Based Exception Handling
  
• EJB Utilities
  
• Efficient JDBC
  

But the biggest thing is that simply making your code IoC friendly improves your design and deployment options. The enterprise integrations are a bonus after that. I just wish the beans files were as simple as pico to set up.