Spring Framework

The Spring Framework is a layered Java/J2EE application framework led by Interface21. Among others it features a lightweight AOP container, transaction management, abstraction of JDBC and various OR mappers and a very complete MVC web framework.

Important links

 * Official Homepage
 * Support forum

Security
How to configure ACEGI Security to use
 * Property files
 * Lotus Domino
 * Microsoft Active Directory
 * Oracle Internet Directory
 * OpenLDAP

Include any one of these into the base configuration.