In the highly competitive arena of web application development, it is important to develop the application as accurately, economically, and efficiently as possible. One way to increase productivity is to decrease complexity. This has been an underlying theme in a recent movement to change the way programmers approach developing Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) web applications. The focus of the change is how to create J2EE-compliant software without using Enterprise Java Beans (EJB). The foremost alternative is the Spring Framework, which provides less services but it is much less intrusive than EJB. The driving force behind this shift is the need for greater productivity and reduced complexity in the area of web application software development and implementation. In this paper we briefly describe Spring underlying architecture and present a case study using Spring.