Integration of Struts, Spring and Hibernate for an E-Commerce System

This paper presents the concept of the Spring framework which is widely used in making enterprise wide Applications along with other frameworks. Spring framework insists that ordinary java beans can be used with slight modifications to them. This framework is used within J2EE architecture to make it easier to develop large scale java applications. This paper presents the architecture overview of spring framework along with the features of the framework that have made the framework useful for using it along with struts and hibernate. The integration of various frameworks for an E-commerce system such as university system has also been discussed in the paper. The Spring MVC framework as an important part is also discussed along with struts mvc. This paper has a proposed architecture for a website based system using the integration of Spring, Hibernate and Struts framework. Keywords—Dispatcher, E-commerce, Hibernate, Integration, JavaEE, Mapping file, MVC, Spring, Struts