Describe the Spring Framework.
Understand the basic philosophies of Spring.
Explain the purpose and benefits of dependency injection.
Configure beans in a Spring configuration file.
Use setter and constructor injection with Spring beans.
Create property files for error messages and to support internationalization.
Write validators and property editors for user-defined data.
Understand basic concepts of aspect-oriented programming.
Use the JDBC template to simplify database access.
Use the Hibernate template to integrate Hibernate and Spring