• About Spring:
    • Type                : Framework s/w
    • Purpose            : to develop java,j2ee app
    • Versions           : 1.x,2.x
    • Vendor             : interface 21(3rd party)
    • Creator                        : Mr. Rod Johnson
    • Source             : open
    • Download        : www.springframework.org
    • Faq                  : www.forum.springframework.org
    • Online              : www.Roseindia.net
    • Reference         :spring live, spring in action       
  • The whole spring api comes as 3rd party api(not given by sun) in the form of spring.jar
  • Commonslogging.jar files is dependent jar file for spring.jar
  • Developing spring app is nothing but adding spring api support in the app development and keeping spring.jar and common-logging.jar file in the classpath
  • Developing web application by using spring api is nothing but using spring api support in the development of web resource for this
  • The spring.jar ,common-logging.jar file should, be kept in WEB-INF/lib folder of app
Note: Hibernate is not a framework s/w and it will not follow any architecture. Hibernate is just ORM tool