What marks this course apart?

Spring is the most popular open
source Java application Framework. Most of the existing frameworks
like Struts or Hibernate take care of one layer or a part of the
application development.
As Struts take care of MVC model,
Hibernate provides ease of working with databases. However, Spring
Framework combines all the industry standard framework approaches
(e.g. Struts and Hibernate) into one bundle.
Spring provides Dependency Injection,
Aspect Oriented Programming and support for unit testing. This gives
the developer time to work on main business logic rather than
worrying about non-application code. Spring makes the application
development fast and increases the productivity of developers.