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 the 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 the rest of the documentation expects the reader to be fairly familiar with state machine concepts.

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