# Spring Framework 3.2.1.RELEASE API

This is the public API documentation for the Spring Framework.

See: Description

Packages
org.springframework.aop: Core Spring AOP interfaces, built on AOP Alliance AOP interoperability interfaces.
org.springframework.aop.aspectj: AspectJ integration package.
org.springframework.aop.aspectj.annotation: Classes enabling AspectJ 5 @Annotated classes to be used in Spring AOP.
org.springframework.aop.aspectj.autoproxy: Base classes enabling auto-proxying based on AspectJ.
org.springframework.aop.config: Support package for declarative AOP configuration, with XML schema being the primary configuration format.
org.springframework.aop.framework: Package containing Spring's basic AOP infrastructure, compliant with the AOP Alliance interfaces.
org.springframework.aop.framework.adapter: SPI package allowing Spring AOP framework to handle arbitrary advice types.
org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy: Bean post-processors for use in ApplicationContexts to simplify AOP usage by automatically creating AOP proxies without the need to use a ProxyFactoryBean.
org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy.target: Generic support classes for target source creation.
org.springframework.aop.interceptor: Provides miscellaneous interceptor implementations.
org.springframework.aop.scope: Support for AOP-based scoping of target objects, with configurable backend.
org.springframework.aop.support: Convenience classes for using Spring's AOP API.
org.springframework.aop.support.annotation: Annotation support for AOP pointcuts.
org.springframework.aop.target: This package contains implementations of the org.springframework.aop.TargetSource interface.
org.springframework.aop.target.dynamic: Support for AOP-based refreshing of target objects.
org.springframework.asm: Spring's repackaging of org.objectweb.asm 4 (for internal use only).
org.springframework.asm.util: Dummy implementations of asm-util classes (for internal use only).
org.springframework.beans: This package contains interfaces and classes for manipulating Java beans.
org.springframework.beans.annotation: Support package for beans-style handling of Java 5 annotations.
org.springframework.beans.factory: The core package implementing Spring's lightweight Inversion of Control (IoC) container.
org.springframework.beans.factory.access: Helper infrastructure to locate and access bean factories.
org.springframework.beans.factory.access.el: Support classes for accessing a Spring BeanFactory from Unified EL.
org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation: Support package for annotation-driven bean configuration.
org.springframework.beans.factory.aspectj
org.springframework.beans.factory.config: SPI interfaces and configuration-related convenience classes for bean factories.
org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing: Support infrastructure for bean definition parsing.
org.springframework.beans.factory.serviceloader: Support package for the JDK 1.6 ServiceLoader facility.
org.springframework.beans.factory.support: Classes supporting the `org.springframework.beans.factory` package.
org.springframework.beans.factory.wiring: Mechanism to determine bean wiring metadata from a bean instance.
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml: Contains an abstract XML-based `BeanFactory` implementation, including a standard "spring-beans" DTD.
org.springframework.beans.propertyeditors: Properties editors used to convert from String values to object types such as java.util.Properties.
org.springframework.beans.support: Classes supporting the org.springframework.beans package, such as utility classes for sorting and holding lists of beans.
org.springframework.cache: Spring's generic cache abstraction.
org.springframework.cache.annotation: Annotations and supporting classes for declarative cache management.
org.springframework.cache.aspectj
org.springframework.cache.concurrent: Implementation package for `java.util.concurrent` based caches.
org.springframework.cache.config: Support package for declarative caching configuration, with XML schema being the primary configuration format.
org.springframework.cache.ehcache: Support classes for the open source cache EhCache, allowing to set up an EhCache CacheManager and Caches as beans in a Spring context.
org.springframework.cache.interceptor: AOP-based solution for declarative caching demarcation.
org.springframework.cache.jcache: Implementation package for JSR-107 (javax.cache aka "JCache") based caches.
org.springframework.cache.support: Support classes for the the org.springframework.cache package.
org.springframework.cache.transaction: Transaction-aware decorators for the the org.springframework.cache package.
org.springframework.cglib: Spring's repackaging of net.sf.cglib 3 (for internal use only).
org.springframework.context: This package builds on the beans package to add support for message sources and for the Observer design pattern, and the ability for application objects to obtain resources using a consistent API.
org.springframework.context.access: Helper infrastructure to locate and access shared application contexts.
org.springframework.context.annotation: Annotation support for the Application Context, including JSR-250 "common" annotations, component-scanning, and Java-based metadata for creating Spring-managed objects.
org.springframework.context.annotation.aspectj
org.springframework.context.config: Support package for advanced application context configuration, with XML schema being the primary configuration format.
org.springframework.context.event: Support classes for application events, like standard context events.
org.springframework.context.expression: Expression parsing support within a Spring application context.
org.springframework.context.i18n: Abstraction for determining the current Locale, plus global holder that exposes a thread-bound Locale.
org.springframework.context.support: Classes supporting the org.springframework.context package, such as abstract base classes for ApplicationContext implementations and a MessageSource implementation.
org.springframework.context.weaving: Load-time weaving support for a Spring application context, building on Spring's `LoadTimeWeaver` abstraction.
org.springframework.core: Provides basic classes for exception handling and version detection, and other core helpers that are not specific to any part of the framework.
org.springframework.core.annotation: Core support package for Java 5 annotations.
org.springframework.core.convert: Type conversion system API.
org.springframework.core.convert.converter: SPI to implement Converters for the type conversion system.
org.springframework.core.convert.support: Default implementation of the type conversion system.
org.springframework.core.enums: Interfaces and classes for type-safe enum support on JDK >= 1.3.
org.springframework.core.env: Spring's environment abstraction consisting of bean definition profile and hierarchical property source support.
org.springframework.core.io: Generic abstraction for (file-based) resources, used throughout the framework.
org.springframework.core.io.support: Support classes for Spring's resource abstraction.
org.springframework.core.serializer: Root package for Spring's serializer interfaces and implementations.
org.springframework.core.serializer.support: Support classes for Spring's serializer abstraction.
org.springframework.core.style: Support for styling values as Strings, with ToStringCreator as central class.
org.springframework.core.task: This package defines Spring's core TaskExecutor abstraction, and provides SyncTaskExecutor and SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor implementations.
org.springframework.core.task.support: Support classes for Spring's TaskExecutor abstraction.
org.springframework.core.type: Core support package for type introspection.
org.springframework.core.type.classreading: Support classes for reading annotation and class-level metadata.
org.springframework.core.type.filter: Core support package for type filtering (e.g.
org.springframework.dao: Exception hierarchy enabling sophisticated error handling independent of the data access approach in use.
org.springframework.dao.annotation: Annotation support for DAOs.
org.springframework.dao.support: Support classes for DAO implementations, providing miscellaneous utility methods.
org.springframework.ejb.access: This package contains classes that allow easy access to EJBs.
org.springframework.ejb.config: Support package for EJB/J2EE-related configuration, with XML schema being the primary configuration format.
org.springframework.ejb.interceptor: Support classes for EJB 3 Session Beans and Message-Driven Beans, performing injection of Spring beans through an EJB 3 interceptor that processes Spring's `@Autowired` annotation.
org.springframework.ejb.support: Base classes to make implementing EJB 2.x beans simpler and less error-prone, as well as guaranteeing a Spring BeanFactory is available to such EJBs.
org.springframework.expression
org.springframework.expression.common
org.springframework.expression.spel
org.springframework.expression.spel.ast
org.springframework.expression.spel.standard
org.springframework.expression.spel.support
org.springframework.format: An API for defining Formatters to format field model values for display in a UI.
org.springframework.format.annotation: Annotations for declaratively configuring field formatting rules.
org.springframework.format.datetime: Formatters for `java.util.Date` properties.
org.springframework.format.datetime.joda: Integration with the Joda Time for formatting Joda types as well as standard JDK Date types.
org.springframework.format.number: Formatters for `java.lang.Number` properties.
org.springframework.format.support: Support classes for the formatting package, providing common implementations as well as adapters.
org.springframework.http: Contains a basic abstraction over client/server-side HTTP.
org.springframework.http.client: Contains an abstraction over client-side HTTP.
org.springframework.http.client.support: This package provides generic HTTP support classes, to be used by higher-level classes like RestTemplate.
org.springframework.http.converter: Provides an HttpMessageConverter abstraction to convert between Java objects and HTTP input/output messages.
org.springframework.http.converter.feed: Provides HttpMessageConverter implementations for handling Atom and RSS feeds.
org.springframework.http.converter.json: Provides an HttpMessageConverter implementations for handling JSON.
org.springframework.http.converter.support
org.springframework.http.converter.xml: Provides an HttpMessageConverter implementations for handling XML.
org.springframework.http.server: Contains an abstraction over server-side HTTP.
org.springframework.instrument
org.springframework.instrument.classloading: Support package for load time weaving based on class loaders, as required by JPA providers (but not JPA-specific).
org.springframework.instrument.classloading.glassfish: Support for class instrumentation on GlassFish / Sun Application Server.
org.springframework.instrument.classloading.jboss: Support for class instrumentation on JBoss AS 5.x / JBoss MC 2.0.x.
org.springframework.instrument.classloading.oc4j: Support for class instrumentation on Oracle OC4J.
org.springframework.instrument.classloading.tomcat: Support for class instrumentation on Apache Tomcat.
org.springframework.instrument.classloading.weblogic: Support for class instrumentation on BEA WebLogic 10.
org.springframework.instrument.classloading.websphere: Support for class instrumentation on IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.
org.springframework.jca.cci: This package contains Spring's support for the Common Client Interface (CCI), as defined by the J2EE Connector Architecture.
org.springframework.jca.cci.connection: Provides a utility class for easy ConnectionFactory access, a PlatformTransactionManager for local CCI transactions, and various simple ConnectionFactory proxies/adapters.
org.springframework.jca.cci.core: Provides the core JCA CCI support, based on CciTemplate and its associated callback interfaces.
org.springframework.jca.cci.core.support: Classes supporting the `org.springframework.jca.cci.core` package.
org.springframework.jca.cci.object: The classes in this package represent EIS operations as threadsafe, reusable objects.
org.springframework.jca.context: Integration package that allows for deploying a Spring application context as a JCA 1.5 compliant RAR file.
org.springframework.jca.endpoint: This package provides a facility for generic JCA message endpoint management.
org.springframework.jca.support: Provides generic support classes for JCA usage within Spring, mainly for local setup of a JCA ResourceAdapter and/or ConnectionFactory.
org.springframework.jca.work: Convenience classes for scheduling based on the JCA 1.5 WorkManager facility, as supported within JCA 1.5 ResourceAdapters.
org.springframework.jca.work.glassfish: Convenience package for obtaining a GlassFish JCA WorkManager for use in web applications.
org.springframework.jca.work.jboss: Convenience package for obtaining a JBoss JCA WorkManager for use in web applications.
org.springframework.jdbc: The classes in this package make JDBC easier to use and reduce the likelihood of common errors.
org.springframework.jdbc.config: Defines the Spring JDBC configuration namespace.
org.springframework.jdbc.core: Provides the core JDBC framework, based on JdbcTemplate and its associated callback interfaces and helper objects.
org.springframework.jdbc.core.metadata: Context metadata abstraction for the configuration and execution of a stored procedure call.
org.springframework.jdbc.core.namedparam: JdbcTemplate variant with named parameter support.
org.springframework.jdbc.core.simple: Simplification layer over JdbcTemplate for Java 5 and above.
org.springframework.jdbc.core.support: Classes supporting the `org.springframework.jdbc.core` package.
org.springframework.jdbc.datasource: Provides a utility class for easy DataSource access, a PlatformTransactionManager for a single DataSource, and various simple DataSource implementations.
org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.embedded: Provides extensible support for creating embedded database instances.
org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.init: Provides extensible support for initializing databases through scripts.
org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.lookup: Provides a strategy for looking up JDBC DataSources by name.
org.springframework.jdbc.object: The classes in this package represent RDBMS queries, updates, and stored procedures as threadsafe, reusable objects.
org.springframework.jdbc.support: Support classes for the JDBC framework, used by the classes in the jdbc.core and jdbc.object packages.
org.springframework.jdbc.support.incrementer: Provides a support framework for incrementing database table values via sequences, with implementations for various databases.
org.springframework.jdbc.support.lob: Provides a stategy interface for Large OBject handling, with implementations for various databases.
org.springframework.jdbc.support.nativejdbc: Provides a mechanism for extracting native implementations of JDBC interfaces from wrapper objects that got returned from connection pools.
org.springframework.jdbc.support.rowset: Provides a convenient holder for disconnected result sets.
org.springframework.jdbc.support.xml: Abstraction for handling fields of SQLXML data type.
org.springframework.jms: This package contains integration classes for JMS, allowing for Spring-style JMS access.
org.springframework.jms.config: Support package for declarative messaging configuration, with XML schema being the primary configuration format.
org.springframework.jms.connection: Provides a PlatformTransactionManager implementation for a single JMS ConnectionFactory, and a SingleConnectionFactory adapter.
org.springframework.jms.core: Core package of the JMS support.
org.springframework.jms.core.support: Classes supporting the `org.springframework.jms.core` package.
org.springframework.jms.listener: This package contains the base message listener container facility.
org.springframework.jms.listener.adapter: Message listener adapter mechanism that delegates to target listener methods, converting messages to appropriate message content types (such as String or byte array) that get passed into listener methods.
org.springframework.jms.listener.endpoint: This package provides JCA-based endpoint management for JMS message listeners.
org.springframework.jms.remoting: Remoting classes for transparent Java-to-Java remoting via a JMS provider.
org.springframework.jms.support: This package provides generic JMS support classes, to be used by higher-level classes like JmsTemplate.
org.springframework.jms.support.converter: Provides a MessageConverter abstraction to convert between Java objects and JMS messages.
org.springframework.jms.support.destination: Support classes for Spring's JMS framework.
org.springframework.jmx: This package contains Spring's JMX support, which includes registration of Spring-managed beans as JMX MBeans as well as access to remote JMX MBeans.
org.springframework.jmx.access: Provides support for accessing remote MBean resources.
org.springframework.jmx.export: This package provides declarative creation and registration of Spring-managed beans as JMX MBeans.
org.springframework.jmx.export.annotation: JDK 1.5+ annotations for MBean exposure.
org.springframework.jmx.export.assembler: Provides a strategy for MBeanInfo assembly.
org.springframework.jmx.export.metadata: Provides generic JMX metadata classes and basic support for reading JMX metadata in a provider-agnostic manner.
org.springframework.jmx.export.naming: Provides a strategy for ObjectName creation.
org.springframework.jmx.export.notification: Provides supporting infrastructure to allow Spring-created MBeans to send JMX notifications.
org.springframework.jmx.support: Contains support classes for connecting to local and remote `MBeanServer`s and for exposing an `MBeanServer` to remote clients.
org.springframework.jndi: The classes in this package make JNDI easier to use, facilitating the accessing of configuration stored in JNDI, and provide useful superclasses for JNDI access classes.
org.springframework.jndi.support: Support classes for JNDI usage, including a JNDI-based BeanFactory implementation.
org.springframework.mail: Spring's generic mail infrastructure.
org.springframework.mail.javamail: JavaMail support for Spring's mail infrastructure.
org.springframework.mock.env: This package contains mock implementations of the `Environment` and `PropertySource` abstractions introduced in Spring 3.1.
org.springframework.mock.http: Mock implementations of client/server-side HTTP abstractions.
org.springframework.mock.http.client: Mock implementations of client-side HTTP abstractions.
org.springframework.mock.jndi: The simplest implementation of the JNDI SPI that could possibly work.
org.springframework.mock.staticmock
org.springframework.mock.web: A comprehensive set of Servlet API 2.5 mock objects, targeted at usage with Spring's web MVC framework.
org.springframework.mock.web.portlet: A comprehensive set of Portlet API 2.0 mock objects, targeted at usage with Spring's web MVC framework.
org.springframework.orm: Root package for Spring's O/R Mapping integration classes.
org.springframework.orm.hibernate3: Package providing integration of Hibernate 3.x with Spring concepts.
org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation: Support package for the Hibernate3 Annotation add-on, which supports EJB3-compliant JDK 1.5+ annotations for mappings.
org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support: Classes supporting the `org.springframework.orm.hibernate3` package.
org.springframework.orm.hibernate4: Package providing integration of Hibernate 4.x with Spring concepts.
org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.support: Classes supporting the `org.springframework.orm.hibernate4` package.
org.springframework.orm.ibatis: Package providing integration of iBATIS Database Layer with Spring concepts.
org.springframework.orm.ibatis.support: Classes supporting the `org.springframework.orm.ibatis` package.
org.springframework.orm.jdo: Package providing integration of JDO (Java Date Objects) with Spring concepts.
org.springframework.orm.jdo.support: Classes supporting the `org.springframework.orm.jdo` package.
org.springframework.orm.jpa: Package providing integration of JPA (Java Persistence API) with Spring concepts.
org.springframework.orm.jpa.persistenceunit: Internal support for managing JPA persistence units.
org.springframework.orm.jpa.support: Classes supporting the `org.springframework.orm.jpa` package.
org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor: Support classes for adapting to specific JPA vendors.
org.springframework.oxm: Root package for Spring's O/X Mapping integration classes.
org.springframework.oxm.castor: Package providing integration of Castor within Springs O/X Mapping support
org.springframework.oxm.config: Provides an namespace handler for the Spring Object/XML namespace
org.springframework.oxm.jaxb: Package providing integration of JAXB with Springs O/X Mapping support
org.springframework.oxm.jibx: Package providing integration of JiBX with Springs O/X Mapping support
org.springframework.oxm.mime: Contains (un)marshallers optimized to store binary data in MIME attachments.
org.springframework.oxm.support: Provides generic support classes for using Spring's O/X Mapping integration within various scenario's.
org.springframework.oxm.xmlbeans: Package providing integration of XMLBeans with Springs O/X Mapping support
org.springframework.oxm.xstream: Package providing integration of XStream with Springs O/X Mapping support
org.springframework.remoting: Exception hierarchy for Spring's remoting infrastructure, independent of any specific remote method invocation system.
org.springframework.remoting.caucho: This package provides remoting classes for Caucho's Hessian and Burlap protocols: a proxy factory for accessing Hessian/Burlap services, and an exporter for making beans available to Hessian/Burlap clients.
org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker: Remoting classes for transparent Java-to-Java remoting via HTTP invokers.
org.springframework.remoting.jaxrpc: Remoting classes for Web Services via JAX-RPC.
org.springframework.remoting.jaxws: Remoting classes for Web Services via JAX-WS (the successor of JAX-RPC), as included in Java 6 and Java EE 5.
org.springframework.remoting.rmi: Remoting classes for conventional RMI and transparent remoting via RMI invokers.
org.springframework.remoting.soap: SOAP-specific exceptions and support classes for Spring's remoting subsystem.
org.springframework.remoting.support: Generic support classes for remoting implementations.
org.springframework.scheduling: General exceptions for Spring's scheduling support, independent of any specific scheduling system.
org.springframework.scheduling.annotation: JDK 1.5+ annotation for asynchronous method execution.
org.springframework.scheduling.aspectj
org.springframework.scheduling.backportconcurrent: Scheduling convenience classes for the JSR-166 backport Executor mechanism, allowing to set up a ThreadPoolExecutor as a TaskExecutor-compliant bean in a Spring context.
org.springframework.scheduling.commonj: Convenience classes for scheduling based on the CommonJ WorkManager/TimerManager facility, as supported by IBM WebSphere 6.0+ and BEA WebLogic 9.0+.
org.springframework.scheduling.concurrent: Scheduling convenience classes for the JDK 1.5+ Executor mechanism in the `java.util.concurrent` package, allowing to set up a ThreadPoolExecutor or ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor as a bean in a Spring context.
org.springframework.scheduling.config: Support package for declarative scheduling configuration, with XML schema being the primary configuration format.
org.springframework.scheduling.quartz: Support classes for the open source scheduler Quartz, allowing to set up Quartz Schedulers, JobDetails and Triggers as beans in a Spring context.
org.springframework.scheduling.support: Generic support classes for scheduling.
org.springframework.scheduling.timer: Scheduling convenience classes for the JDK Timer, allowing to set up Timers and ScheduledTimerTasks as beans in a Spring context.
org.springframework.scripting: Core interfaces for Spring's scripting support.
org.springframework.scripting.bsh: Package providing integration of BeanShell into Spring's scripting infrastructure.
org.springframework.scripting.config: Support package for Spring's dynamic language machinery, with XML schema being the primary configuration format.
org.springframework.scripting.groovy: Package providing integration of Groovy into Spring's scripting infrastructure.
org.springframework.scripting.jruby: Package providing integration of JRuby into Spring's scripting infrastructure.
org.springframework.scripting.support: Support classes for Spring's scripting package.
org.springframework.stereotype: Annotations denoting the roles of types or methods in the overall architecture (at a conceptual, rather than implementation, level).
org.springframework.test: This package contains the legacy JUnit 3.8 class hierarchy, which as of Spring 3.0 has been deprecated in favor of using the listener-based Spring TestContext Framework.
org.springframework.test.annotation: Support classes for annotation-driven tests.
org.springframework.test.context: This package contains the Spring TestContext Framework which provides annotation-driven unit and integration testing support that is agnostic of the actual testing framework in use.
org.springframework.test.context.junit38: Support classes for ApplicationContext-based and transactional tests run with JUnit 3.8 and the Spring TestContext Framework.
org.springframework.test.context.junit4: Support classes for ApplicationContext-based and transactional tests run with JUnit 4.5+ and the Spring TestContext Framework.
org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements: JUnit 4.5 based `statements` used in the Spring TestContext Framework.
org.springframework.test.context.support: Support classes for the Spring TestContext Framework.
org.springframework.test.context.testng: Support classes for ApplicationContext-based and transactional tests run with TestNG and the Spring TestContext Framework.
org.springframework.test.context.transaction: Transactional support classes for the Spring TestContext Framework.
org.springframework.test.context.web: Web support classes for the Spring TestContext Framework.
org.springframework.test.jdbc: Support classes for tests based on JDBC.
org.springframework.test.jpa: As of Spring 3.0, this package has been deprecated in favor of using the listener-based Spring TestContext Framework.
org.springframework.test.util: General utility classes for use in unit and integration tests.
org.springframework.test.web: Helper classes for unit tests based on Spring's web support.
org.springframework.test.web.client: Contains client-side REST testing support.
org.springframework.test.web.client.match: Contains built-in `RequestMatcher` implementations.
org.springframework.test.web.client.response: Contains built-in `ResponseCreator` implementations.
org.springframework.test.web.servlet: Contains server-side support for testing Spring MVC applications.
org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request: Contains built-in `RequestBuilder` implementations.
org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result: Contains built-in `ResultMatcher` and `ResultHandler` implementations.
org.springframework.test.web.servlet.setup: Contains built-in `MockMvcBuilder` implementations.
org.springframework.transaction: Exception hierarchy for Spring's transaction infrastructure, independent of any specific transaction management system.
org.springframework.transaction.annotation: JDK 1.5+ annotation for transaction demarcation.
org.springframework.transaction.aspectj
org.springframework.transaction.config: Support package for declarative transaction configuration, with XML schema being the primary configuration format.
org.springframework.transaction.interceptor: AOP-based solution for declarative transaction demarcation.
org.springframework.transaction.jta: Transaction SPI implementation for JTA.
org.springframework.transaction.support: Support classes for the org.springframework.transaction package.
org.springframework.ui: Generic support for UI layer concepts.
org.springframework.ui.context: Contains classes defining the application context subinterface for UI applications.
org.springframework.ui.context.support: Classes supporting the org.springframework.ui.context package.
org.springframework.ui.freemarker: Support classes for setting up FreeMarker within a Spring application context.
org.springframework.ui.jasperreports: Support classes for JasperReports.
org.springframework.ui.velocity: Support classes for setting up Velocity within a Spring application context.
org.springframework.util: Miscellaneous utility classes, such as String manipulation utilities, a Log4J configurer, and a state holder for paged lists of objects.
org.springframework.util.comparator: Useful generic `java.util.Comparator` implementations, such as an invertible comparator and a compound comparator.
org.springframework.util.xml: Miscellaneous utility classes for XML parsing and transformation, such as error handlers that log warnings via Commons Logging.
org.springframework.validation: Provides data binding and validation functionality, for usage in business and/or UI layers.
org.springframework.validation.annotation: Support classes for annotation-based constraint evaluation, e.g.
org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation: Support classes for integrating a JSR-303 Bean Validation provider (such as Hibernate Validator 4.0) into a Spring ApplicationContext and in particular with Spring's data binding and validation APIs.
org.springframework.validation.support: Support classes for handling validation results.
org.springframework.web: Common, generic interfaces that define minimal boundary points between Spring's web infrastructure and other framework modules.
org.springframework.web.accept: This package contains classes used to determine the requested the media types in a request.
org.springframework.web.bind: Provides web-specific data binding functionality.
org.springframework.web.bind.annotation: Annotations for binding requests to controllers and handler methods as well as for binding request parameters to method arguments.
org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.support: Support classes for web annotation processing.
org.springframework.web.bind.support: Support classes for web data binding.
org.springframework.web.client: Core package of the client-side web support.
org.springframework.web.client.support: Classes supporting the `org.springframework.web.client` package.
org.springframework.web.context: Contains a variant of the application context interface for web applications, and the ContextLoaderListener that bootstraps a root web application context.
org.springframework.web.context.request: Support for generic request context holding, in particular for scoping of application objects per HTTP request or HTTP session.
org.springframework.web.context.request.async: Support for asynchronous request processing.
org.springframework.web.context.support: Classes supporting the `org.springframework.web.context` package, such as WebApplicationContext implementations and various utility classes.
org.springframework.web.filter: Provides generic filter base classes allowing for bean-style configuration.
org.springframework.web.jsf: Support classes for integrating a JSF web tier with a Spring middle tier which is hosted in a Spring root WebApplicationContext.
org.springframework.web.jsf.el: Support classes for integrating a JSF 1.2 web tier with a Spring middle tier which is hosted in a Spring root WebApplicationContext.
org.springframework.web.method: Common infrastructure for handler method processing, as used by Spring MVC's `org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method` package.
org.springframework.web.method.annotation: Support classes for annotation-based handler method processing.
org.springframework.web.method.support: Generic support classes for handler method processing.
org.springframework.web.multipart: Multipart resolution framework for handling file uploads.
org.springframework.web.multipart.commons: MultipartResolver implementation for Jakarta Commons FileUpload.
org.springframework.web.multipart.support: Support classes for the multipart resolution framework.
org.springframework.web.portlet: Provides JSR-168 portlets that integrate with the application context infrastructure, and the core interfaces and classes for the Portlet variant of Spring's web MVC framework.
org.springframework.web.portlet.bind: Provides portlet-specific data binding functionality.
org.springframework.web.portlet.bind.annotation: Annotations for binding portlet requests to handler methods.
org.springframework.web.portlet.context: Support for Spring's application context concept in a portlet environment, including ApplicationContext implementations and various utility classes.
org.springframework.web.portlet.handler: Provides standard HandlerMapping implementations, including abstract base classes for custom implementations.
org.springframework.web.portlet.multipart: Multipart resolution framework for handling file uploads.
org.springframework.web.portlet.mvc: Standard controller implementations for the portlet MVC framework that comes with Spring.
org.springframework.web.portlet.mvc.annotation: Support package for annotation-based Portlet MVC controllers.
org.springframework.web.portlet.util: Miscellaneous portlet utility classes.
org.springframework.web.servlet: Provides servlets that integrate with the application context infrastructure, and the core interfaces and classes for the Spring web MVC framework.
org.springframework.web.servlet.config: Defines the XML configuration namespace for Spring MVC.
org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation: Annotation-based setup for Spring MVC.
org.springframework.web.servlet.handler: Provides standard HandlerMapping implementations, including abstract base classes for custom implementations.
org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n: Locale support classes for Spring's web MVC framework.
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc: Standard controller implementations for the servlet MVC framework that comes with Spring.
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation: Support package for annotation-based Servlet MVC controllers.
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.condition: Common MVC logic for matching incoming requests based on conditions.
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method: Servlet-based infrastructure for handler method processing, building on the `org.springframework.web.method` package.
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation: MVC infrastructure for annotation-based handler method processing, building on the `org.springframework.web.method.annotation` package.
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.multiaction: Package allowing MVC Controller implementations to handle requests at method rather than class level.
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support: Support package for MVC controllers.
org.springframework.web.servlet.resource: Support classes for serving static resources.
org.springframework.web.servlet.support: Support classes for Spring's web MVC framework.
org.springframework.web.servlet.tags: Spring's JSP standard tag library for JSP 2.0+.
org.springframework.web.servlet.tags.form: Spring's form tag library for JSP 2.0+.
org.springframework.web.servlet.theme: Theme support classes for Spring's web MVC framework.
org.springframework.web.servlet.view: Provides standard View and ViewResolver implementations, including abstract base classes for custom implementations.
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.document: Support classes for document generation, providing View implementations for PDF and Excel.
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.feed: Support classes for feed generation, providing View implementations for Atom and RSS
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker: Support classes for the integration of FreeMarker as Spring web view technology.
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.jasperreports: Support classes for the integration of JasperReports as Spring web view technology.
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json: Support classes for providing a View implementation based on JSON serialization.
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles: Support classes for the integration of Tiles (included in Struts) as Spring web view technology.
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2: Support classes for the integration of Tiles2 (the standalone version of Tiles) as Spring web view technology.
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3: Support classes for the integration of Tiles3 (the standalone version of Tiles) as Spring web view technology.
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity: Support classes for the integration of Velocity as Spring web view technology.
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.xml: Support classes for providing a View implementation based on XML Marshalling.
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.xslt: Support classes for XSLT, providing a View implementation for XSLT stylesheets.
org.springframework.web.struts: Support classes for integrating a Struts web tier with a Spring middle tier which is typically hosted in a Spring root WebApplicationContext.
org.springframework.web.util: Miscellaneous web utility classes, such as HTML escaping, log4j initialization, and cookie handling.