Like much in the Java world, what began as an in-the-wild innovation, Spring, has been in part absorbed by standard specification. In this case, JSR-330 is the Java standard.

Spring Framework 4.3 will be supported on Java versions up to Java 8. Spring Framework 5.0 had initial support for Java 9, and Spring Framework 5.1 requires JDK 8 and officially supports Java 11.

Spring Framework 5.0, featuring a new reactive web framework, was released on September 28, 2017. With this release, Spring 5.0 has its entire codebase based on Java 8 source code level. Spring 5. ...

If you like the Spring framework, you'll want to explore Spring MVC 5 for Java web development. This tutorial shows you how to fast-track Spring-based development with Spring MVC 5, Spring Boot ...

Spring Framework users also place an emphasis on code quality and testing practices in general.

The popularity of Spring Boot has renewed interest in core Spring concepts, such as the meaning of inversion of control and the application of dependency injection. Here, we explore the concept of ...

A new zero-day vulnerability in the Spring Core Java framework called 'Spring4Shell' has been publicly disclosed, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution on applications.

Spring MVC is a simple and elegant Java-based server-side web development framework. It’s able to manage application states and backend resources through Java component coding.

A remote code execution vulnerability in Spring Framework has sparked fears that it could have a widespread impact across enterprise environments. Spring is one of the most popular open-source ...