The Spring fr a mework is a lightweight solution and a potential one-stop-shop for building your enterprise-ready applications. However, Spring is modular, allowing you to use only those parts that you need, without having to bring in the rest. You can use the IoC container, with any web fr a mework on top, but you can also use only the Hibernate integration code or the JDBC abstraction layer. The Spring fr a mework supports declarative transaction management, remote access to your logic through RMI or web services, and various options for persisting your data. It offers a full-featured MVC fr a mework, and enables you to integrate AOP transparently into your software.