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The Spring Framework provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications — on any deployment platform. It was born as a container of IoC. Still, nowadays, Spring is a platform that provides several tools to make the Java developer easier, such as Security, Data, etc. Those features have in common the Spring core. This tutorial will talk about the basic annotations to start to use Spring.

Spring is an annotation driver framework. Thus, it uses annotations to identify the components to inject and to use. The first step in this tutorial is a list of the most trivial annotations in Spring.

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