Part I. Introduction
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Part I. Introduction

Spring Statemachine(SSM) is a framework for application developers to use traditional state machine concepts with Spring applications. SSM aims to provide following features:

  • Easy to use flat one level state machine for simple use cases.
  • Hierarchical state machine structure to ease complex state configuration.
  • State machine regions to provide even more complex state configurations.
  • Usage of triggers, transitions, guards and actions.
  • Type safe configuration adapter.
  • State machine event listeners.
  • Spring IOC integration to associate beans with a state machine.

Before you continue it’s worth to go through appendices Section B.2, “Glossary” and Section B.3, “A State Machines Crash Course” to get a generic idea of what state machines are mostly because rest of a documentation expects reader to be fairly familiar with state machine concepts.

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