[Springframework-developer] Updating the home page for the website

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Everybody,

I have started to re-work the home page of the website - new version of the text
attached for review.  I think we need a stronger message highlighting all the
different parts of Spring.  I see five distinct APIs that each can be used on
their own (well one - the bean factory framework - is used by all the others
under the hood).  I think we should come up with a name for each API to
distinguish them from each other and to underscore that they can be used on
their own, and to also underscore the fact that there is a whole lot more to
Spring than just MVC and JDBC frameworks.  This will also be useful for
documentation and presentation purposes.

The five APIs (feel free to suggest better names):

1. Spring Bean Container - the JavaBean-based configuration management

2. Spring MVC Framework - the web stuff

3. Spring JDBC Objects - the JDBC stuff - including Transaction

4. Spring Persistence - Hibernate, JDO and Trancsaction 

5. Spring AOP - the AOP framework

See the attached document for more detail.

What do you think?

Thomas