Everything about Spring Framework

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Spring FrameworkA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A hybrid framework based on LSTM for predicting karst spring discharge using historical dataInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Wicket in actionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement: a peacefully unfolding African spring?Cited 89 times
5. Go sideways: Spring BootA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Java view technologies and frameworksA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement: a peacefully unfolding African spring?

  Salman M.A. Salman · 2013 · Water International · 89 citations

• Design and Implementation of Energy Management System Based on Spring Boot Framework

  Fang Zhang, Guiling Sun, Bowen Zheng · 2021 · Information · 25 citations

• Applying Spring Security Framework and OAuth2 To Protect Microservice Architecture API

  Southern Institute of Technology, Invercargill, New Zealand., Quy Nguyen, Oras Baker · 2019 · Journal of Software · 24 citations

• A pseudo-spring based SPH framework for studying fatigue crack propagation

  Kona Veera Ganesh, Md Rushdie Ibne Islam, Puneet Kumar Patra · 2022 · International Journal of Fatigue · 16 citations

• Spring Framework Reliability Investigation Against Database Bridging Layer Using Java Platform

  Arief Ginanjar, Mokhamad Hendayun · 2019 · Procedia Computer Science · 12 citations

• A framework to optimize spring-driven autoinjectors

  Xiaoxu Zhong, Ilias Bilionis, Arezoo M. Ardekani · 2022 · International Journal of Pharmaceutics · 10 citations

• Spring Framework Benchmarking Utility for Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools

  Elizaveta Kuzmina, Shahbaz Pervez Chattha, Seyed Ebrahim Hosseini · 2025 · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 5 citations

• Framework for Analyzing Effects of Spring Load Restrictions

  David Levinson, Ning Li, Xi Zou · 2004 · Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board · 3 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A hybrid framework based on LSTM for predicting karst spring discharge using historical data

  Wenrui Zhang, Limin Duan, Tingxi Liu · 2024 · Journal of Hydrology · 26 citations

• SFTSDH: Applying Spring Security Framework With TSD-Based OAuth2 to Protect Microservice Architecture APIs

  Ayan Chatterjee, Martin W. Gerdes, Pankaj Khatiwada · 2022 · IEEE Access · 22 citations

• SPRING, an effective and reliable framework for image reconstruction in single-particle Coherent Diffraction Imaging

  Alessandro Colombo, Mario Sauppe, Andre Al Haddad · 2025 · npj Computational Materials · 6 citations

• Discarded pen spring-supported cobalt-based metal–organic framework catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction

  Sale Chandra Sekhar, Bhimanaboina Ramulu, Shaik Junied Arbaz · 2025 · Journal of Power Sources · 3 citations

• Towards a radiation free numerical modelling framework to predict spring assisted correction of scaphocephaly

  Begona Garate Andikoetxea, Sara Ajami, Naiara Rodriguez-Florez · 2023 · Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering · 3 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Wicket in actionMartijn Dashorst, Eelco Hillenius · 2008
• Spring MVC BlueprintsSherwin John Calleja Tragura · 2016

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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