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The Spring Petclinic Application (rough draft) Introduction Spring is a collection of small, well-focused, loosely coupled Java frameworks that can be used independently or collectively to build industrial strength applications of many different types. It is particularly useful for building enterprise applications. Enterprise applications tend to have the following attributes: Lots of Persistent Data Lots of User Interface displays and forms Complex Business Logic Concurrent access by potentially many simultaneous users The Petclinic sample application is designed to show how the Spring application frameworks can be used to build simple, but powerful database-oriented enterprise applications. It will demonstrate the use of Springs core functionality: JavaBeans based application configuration Model-View-Controller web presentation layer Practical database access through JDBC Data Validation that is not dependent on the presentation layer In addition to showing developers how to get started with Spring, the Petclinic sample will endeavor to demonstrate how Spring can used as an effective tool for implementing applications that are concise, flexible, testable, and maintainable. The Spring frameworks provide a great deal of much needed infrastructure to simplify the tasks faced by application developers. It provides infrastructure that helps developers to create applications that are : concise by handling a lot of the complex control flow that is needed to use the Java APIs, such as JDBC, JNDI, JTA, RMI, and EJB. flexible by simplifying the process of external application configuration through the use of Reflection and JavaBeans. This allows the developer to achieve a clean separation of configuration data from application code. All application and web application objects, including validators, workflow controllers, and views, should be JavaBeans that can be configured externally. The validation and web application frameworks provide good support for Internationali