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TSS has recently published an updated version of the article "Introduction to the Spring Framework" by Rod Johnson. It reminded me of my beginnings with Spring. It was late 2003 when I stumbled across the first version of that article. My first reaction was "yet another framework". The introduction intrigued me however, so I decided to give it a try. The article struck a chord. I was working on a couple of "typical" J2EE projects back then: a Struts web layer and an EJB2 service layer, plus an always-growing amount of custom infrastructure code. We also used a collection of J2EE patterns throughout the different layers. EJB2 was a mess, Struts was expiring and most of the patterns were of dubious benefit. Everyone knows that now. Back then, that was the standard.