Spring SpEL Tutorial

What is Spring Framework?

Spring framework is an open source Java platform that provides comprehensive infrastructure support for developing robust Java applications very easily and very rapidly. Spring framework was initially written by Rod Johnson and was first released under the Apache 2.0 license in June 2003.

Why is Spring SpEL?

The Spring Expression Language, SpEL is a very powerful expression language and it supports querying and manipulating an object graph at runtime. It offers many advanced features like method invocation and basic string templating functionality.

Spring Expression Language was originally created for the Spring community to have a single well supported expression language to be used across all the products in the Spring portfolio. While SpEL serves as the foundation for expression evaluation within the Spring portfolio, it is not directly tied to Spring and can be used independently.

In this tutorial, we'll cover Spring Expression Language, SpEL in Spring framework which helps in solving the common problems developers/users face in spring framework based applications.

This Spring Expression Language tutorial is based on the latest Spring 7.0.0-M9 version.

Who Should Learn Spring SpEL?

This tutorial is tailored for readers who aim to understand and utilize Spring framework for development using Java programming language. In this tutorial, we'll cover all the ways of using Spring which helps in solving the common problems developers/users face during java based development.

Prerequisites to Learn Spring SpEL?

To maximize the benefits of this tutorial, readers should have a basic understanding of Java programming. Knowledge of I/O Operations, File handling will enhance comprehension. A basic understanding of Eclipse IDE is also required because all the examples have been compiled using Eclipse IDE.