25 Spring Framework Interview Questions for 1 to 3 Years Experienced Java Programmers

Preparing for Java Interviews? Don’t forget to prepare for Spring framework questions, here are the popular Spring Framework question for experienced Java developers.

Hello folks, if you are working in Java world then you must have heard about Spring Framework and Spring Boot. Spring framework is very popular in Java world for doing application development.

It provides dependency injection and inversion of control and also provides several API like JdbcTemplate, JmsTemplate,, RestTemplate, WebClient to make developer’s work easier while working with JDK core libraries. Since Spring is very important in application development world, its also quite popular among interviewers. You will see lot of questions from Spring framework in both Java and JEE interviews.

Its even more important in web and enterprise development world due to Spring MVC framework but we will see it later.

By the way, if you are new to Spring Framework and want to learn Spring in depth and looking for resources then you can also checkout following online courses:

1. Spring Master Class — Beginner to Expert
2. Spring & Hibernate for Beginners
3. Learn Spring: The Certification Class
4. Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

All of these are top rated courses to learn Spring framework in depth but if you need free resources you can also checkout these free Spring framework courses:

Last week I have shared 35 Java Interview Questions and System Design Problems, and In this post, I am going to share you some of the frequently asked Spring framework questions from Java interviews. These are from my own experience, given I have attended so many interviews in last 7 years of my careers :) .

I am not providing answers for these questions because its mostly for preparation purpose, if I do then when I use it to refresh my knowledge I won’t be able to use it as practice test. Hopefully, I will write another post answering Spring questions from this article.

25 Spring Framework Interview Questions for 2 to 3 Experienced Java developers

Here are common Spring Framework questions asked during Java Interviews:

1. What is Spring framework? Why do you use it?
2. What is dependency injection?
3. What is Inversion of Control?
4. What is difference between dependency injection and inversion of control?
5. What is difference between spring IOC and factory design pattern?
6. What is spring bean?
7. What are different scopes a Spring bean can be?
8. Does spring bean in Singleton scope are thread-safe?
9. What is auto wiring?
10. Does Spring beans are garbage collected in JVM?
11. Which one is better configuring your application using XML, or Annotations?
12. What are different types of dependency injection supported by Spring?
13. What is difference between Constructor and Setter injection?
14. What is difference between @Contorller, @Service, and @Repository in Spring Framework?
15. What is difference between Controller and RestController?
16. What is alternative of Spring for core Java application?
17. How does JdbcTemplate class helps you?
18. How do you test Spring Framework application?
19. How does JmsTemplate class helps you?
20. What is RestTemplate and WebClient? What are difference between RestClient and WebClient?
21. What is the current version of Spring framework? Which version have you worked before?
22. What are the new features introduced in Spring 6.0 version?
23. Which books you have read about Spring framework?
24. If you have to change one thing in Spring framework, what do you change?
25. What are common Spring Framework annotations have you used in your project?

These Spring interview questions are mostly for Java and Microservice developer position for projects which uses both Spring and Hibernate. Some of them are asked in consultancy companies like Capegemini, Tech Mahindra and others are different small companies.

Some of them are also collected from internet during my preparation for these interviews. If anyone wants to answer them, go ahead and post answers as comments and I will give you credit :)

Java and Spring Interview Preparation Material

Before any Java and Spring Developer interview, I also use to read the below resources

Grokking the Java Interview: click here

I have personally bought these books to speed up my preparation.

You can get your sample copy here, check the content of it and go for it

Grokking the Java Interview [Free Sample Copy]: click here

If you want to prepare for the Spring Boot interview you follow this consolidated eBook, it also contains microservice questions from spring boot interviews.

Grokking the Spring Boot Interview

You can get your copy here — Grokking the Spring Boot Interview

All the best for your Java interviews. Don’t forget to prepare some Spring Framework Interview questions if your Job description mentioned about Spring and Hibernate.

By the way, if you are new to Spring Framework and want to learn Spring in depth and looking for resources then you can also checkout following online courses:

1. Spring Master Class — Beginner to Expert
2. Spring & Hibernate for Beginners
3. Learn Spring: The Certification Class
4. Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

All of these are top rated courses to learn Spring framework in depth but if you need free resources you can also checkout these free Spring framework courses:

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