Starter for aspect-oriented programming with Spring AOP and AspectJ

Support for programmatic and declarative transaction management for classes that implement special interfaces or any POJO.

Support classes for integrating common third-party libraries into a Spring application context

Starter for using JDBC with the HikariCP connection pool

Starter for using Java Bean Validation with Hibernate Validator

Spring AOP provides an Alliance-compliant aspect-oriented programming implementation allowing you to define method interceptors and pointcuts to cleanly decouple code that implements functionality that should be separated.

Spring Security is a powerful and highly customizable authentication and access-control framework. It provides protection against attacks like session fixation, clickjacking, cross site request forgery, etc

Spring Object/Relational Mapping which provides integration layers for popular object-relational mapping APIs, including JPA, JDO, and Hibernate.

Starter for logging default logging

Starter for using Java Mail and Spring Framework's email sending support