Spring 2.5, released in November of last year, introduced the ability to define and demarcate components using XSD data. In this article, I introduce the new features in Spring 2.5 by showing you how ...

Spring is perhaps the best of the component-based frameworks that emerged at the turn of the 21st century. It vastly improves the way that developers write and deliver infrastructure code in ...

In my last article, I detailed a high-level comparison of two dependency injection frameworks: Guice and Spring. As I mentioned then, although they both fully embrace the principles of DI, they have ...

Novice programmers rarely see the value in externalized configuration. It's tedious and doesn't result in an immediate payoff. That means this task is often overlooked or done poorly, if at all. For ...