This is the home of the Spring Framework, the foundation for all Spring projects. Together the Spring Framework and the family of Spring projects make up what we call "Spring".

Spring provides everything you need beyond the Java language to create enterprise applications in a wide range of scenarios and architectures. Please read the Overview section in the reference for a more complete introduction.

This project is governed by the Spring Code of Conduct. By participating you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to spring-code-of-conduct@pivotal.io.

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The Spring Frameworks maintains reference documentation (published and source), Github wiki pages, and an API reference. There are also guides and tutorials across Spring projects.

See the Build from Source wiki page and also CONTRIBUTING.md.

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The Spring Framework is released under version 2.0 of the Apache License.