Spring 2.5 rolled out a comprehensive set of annotations that can be used for auto-discovery of Spring-managed objects, dependency injection, lifecycle methods, Web layer configuration, and testing.

On the other hand, Spring Boot is a project accelerator that helps teams build a basic Spring-based application that uses the projects and technologies they want, which may or may not include Spring ...

Spring Converters and Formatters Spring 3.0 introduces a simple Converter interface that you can implement and reuse anywhere in Spring. You can use them in Spring MVC to convert request String values ...