Any evidence or or experience that Spring does NOT make testing easier?

[dejanp]

First, thanks for your quick response!!!

In fact we're not having problems at all. I'm completely new to Java universe, and the problem I have is that I really don't know if adopting Spring in our solution is oversizing our application. That's why I wanted to know if you could have any figures about when to use and when not to use Spring.

Thanks again!

Spring can hardly oversize your application if it's not totally trivial. The stuff you do through Spring is the stuff that needs to be done anyway, you just use different means to do it.

Where Spring comes in is the point where it "pushes" you to do it "right". It makes it easy to think about the system in terms of cleanly defined decoupled components and it makes it easy to implement it and configure it.

If you use Spring concepts - IoC, DaoSupport, TransactionManagers, transparent Remoting etc. more often then not you will end up with an application whose infrastructure is pretty well designed. And that's exactly what frameworks are for.

[aitorelo]

Thanks a lot Bill! Your answer has been really helpful!