Using spring for standalone apps

[tv]

I have used spring for J2EE and web apps but now is it reasonable to use spring for standalone apps with no J2EE api involved? Mainly I want to have inversion of control and maybe some AOP and interceptors stuff. What parts of spring are usable in such environment and you thoughts about it?

thanks

[katentim]

Absolutely - it can be used outside of a web app.

Spring is made into 7 separate components and can easily be used for standalone apps. Look at Spring ref. docs section 1.1. Core, Context, AOP, DAO and ORM are all applicable to non-web apps.

PS - See Spring Rich client project (http://www.springframework.org/spring-rcp.html) if you want a swing GUI.