In this post, we will list down all the modules that comes with Spring.
Most of the modules have a dependency on some other module in the Spring
Framework.
| Module | Artifact | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AOP | spring-aop | The proxy-based AOP framework for Spring |
| Aspects | spring-aspects | AspectJ-based aspects for Spring |
| Beans | spring-beans | Spring’s core bean factory support |
| Context | spring-context | Application context runtime implementations; also contains scheduling and remoting support classes |
| Context | spring-context-indexer | Support for providing a static index of beans used in the application; improves startup performance |
| Context | spring-context-support | Support classes for integrating third-party libraries with Spring |
| Core | spring-core | Core utilities |
| Expression Language | spring-expression | Classes for the Spring Expression Language (SpEL) |
| Instrumentation | spring-instrument | Instrumentation classes to be used with a Java agent |
| JCL | spring-jcl | Spring specific replacement for commons-logging |
| JDBC | spring-jdbc | JDBC support package that includes data source setup classes and JDBC access support |
| JMS | spring-jms | JMS support package that includes synchronous JMS access and message listener containers |
| ORM | spring-orm | ORM support package that includes support for Hibernate 5+ and JPA |
| Messaging | spring-messaging | Spring messaging abstraction; used by JMS and WebSocket |
| OXM | spring-oxm | XML support package that includes support for object-to-XML mapping; also includes support for JAXB, JiBX, XStream, and Castor |
| Test | spring-test | Testing support classes |
| Transactions | spring-tx | Transaction infrastructure classes; includes JCA integration and DAO support classes |
| Web | spring-web | Core web package for use in any web environment |
| WebFlux | spring-webflux | Spring WebFlux support package Includes support for several reactive runtimes like Netty and Undertow |
| Servlet | spring-webmvc | Spring MVC support package for use in a Servlet environment includes support for common view technologies |
| WebSocket | spring-websocket | Spring WebSocket support package Includes support for communication over the WebSocket protocol |
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Spring Framework