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Hello Experts,
I am new to spring and want to know advantages of using spring framework. I will be using spring to migrate our existing web application which is in java applet with JDBC (no framework). Since it is very old application.

I want to know what good a framework like spring would do to my Java applet application. And what will be the strong enough reason to migrate from legacy application to Spring?

I would appreciate your participation as approval for spring framework is dependent on my analysis.

Thank you in advance.

-sp
 
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I will be using spring to migrate our existing web application which is in java applet with JDBC (no framework).


Why would you migrate it using Spring if you don't know what Spring can offer ?

Spring has a nice JDBC template which allows you to remove a lot of JDBC-related boiler plate code. But, is it worth doing it now...
 
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Christophe Verré wrote:

I will be using spring to migrate our existing web application which is in java applet with JDBC (no framework).


Why would you migrate it using Spring if you don't know what Spring can offer ?

Spring has a nice JDBC template which allows you to remove a lot of JDBC-related boiler plate code. But, is it worth doing it now...




Hi Chris,
The whole purpose behind this exercise is to know the benefits of Spring Framework. What would spring offer that current application can not? Thanks for JDBC template point. Do I have any other strong reasons to migrate?
 
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Testability and extensibility via IoC/DI, greatly simplified transaction handling.

But if it's an actual applet... I don't know. Don't applets run completely on the client machine? Wouldn't that mean having to download the entire Spring dependency tree? Only a one-time hit, perhaps, but still.

Why do you think you want to change it? It'd be a lot of work.
 
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