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Discussion on: What's the difference between a library and a framework?

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Thomas Broyer

Spring is more than a framework, it's a whole ecosystem: you cannot pick up something from Spring that looks like a library as it comes with the whole Spring ecosystem dependencies. It's not just a set of libraries that "work well together" (as others have written), they depend on each other (and why I avoid anything Spring, just like I avoid frameworks in general)

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Ben

The situation of spring is very similar to angular, react, vue.

I would say when many people use a framework, the framework would be a ecosystem.