30.4.1. What is Spring?

Try these first

1. 1.

   What is the primary purpose of the Spring Framework?

   Hint

   Think about the role of frameworks in software development.

2. 2.

   Define Dependency Injection in your own words.

   Hint

   Consider how dependencies are managed in an application.

3. 3.

   What does Spring primarily help developers with?

   • Managing security
   • Streamlining application development
   • Creating UI components

   Hint

   Think about the overall goals of using frameworks.

4. 4.

   True or False: Dependency Injection is a method of providing dependencies to a class.

   • True
   • False

   Hint

   Recall the definition and its role in Spring.

5. 5.

   Design a simple Spring application configuration using DI and describe the benefits it provides in testing.

   Hint

   Think of testing dependencies in isolation.

6. 6.

   Write a small example to show how Spring Boot can simplify application startup compared to traditional Spring setup.

   Hint

   Focus on how configurations reduce the number of lines of code.