Terminology

Spring Core, the base of the Spring Framework, provides a model for configuring Java applications. Key concepts include Beans (Java objects managed by Spring), Inversion of Control (IoC) (Spring managing bean lifecycles and dependencies), and Dependency Injection (DI) (Spring providing bean dependencies). The Spring container (specifically an ApplicationContext) creates and manages these beans. Spring also offers Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) for handling cross-cutting concerns, an event model for decoupled communication using ApplicationEvent and listeners, abstractions for Data Access and Transactions, and utilities for Task Execution and Scheduling.