What design patterns are used in Spring framework?

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Tony picture Tony · Apr 16, 2009 · Viewed 129.3k times · Source

What design patterns are used in Spring framework?

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toolkit picture toolkit · Apr 16, 2009

There are loads of different design patterns used, but there are a few obvious ones:

  • Proxy - used heavily in AOP, and remoting.

  • Singleton - beans defined in spring config files are singletons by default.

  • Template method - used extensively to deal with boilerplate repeated code (such as closing connections cleanly, etc..). For example JdbcTemplate, JmsTemplate, JpaTemplate.

Update following comments: For MVC, you might want to read the MVC Reference

Some obvious patterns in use in MVC:

  • Model View Controller :-) . The advantage with Spring MVC is that your controllers are POJOs as opposed to being servlets. This makes for easier testing of controllers. One thing to note is that the controller is only required to return a logical view name, and the view selection is left to a separate ViewResolver. This makes it easier to reuse controllers for different view technologies.

  • Front Controller. Spring provides DispatcherServlet to ensure an incoming request gets dispatched to your controllers.

  • View Helper - Spring has a number of custom JSP tags, and velocity macros, to assist in separating code from presentation in views.

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