Spring: Modules/Components/Plugins

I would like to know, if the java spring framework offers a module or plugin concept to develop modules/plugins for d开发者_运维问答ifferent spring applications (same code base). You know what I mean? I would like to develop one module/plugin, witch I can use in spring application 1 and spring application 2. Thanks!

Spring framework itself (except spring core) is a huge collection of plugins. For example aop, jdbc, jms, orm, oxm - all these are plugins. You can create spring component and package it into jar. Then you can use it as a part of other component. You can find services that are packaged in different jar and use it exactly as you can use service packaged into your current jar.