This document discusses Spring for Apache Hadoop, a framework that simplifies using Apache Hadoop and related projects like HBase and Hive within the Spring programming model. It provides wrappers and configuration for common Hadoop tasks like MapReduce jobs, scripting, and accessing Hadoop databases and data processing engines. The goals are to provide a programmatic model for the Hadoop ecosystem, simplify client libraries, and leverage Spring features. It supports various Hadoop distributions and provides interfaces for MapReduce, HBase, Hive, Pig and other Hadoop technologies.