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 ...

Spring 3 provides the ability to use a Java based configuration file, as opposed to using those monolithic XML configuration files that everyone hates. However, it doesn't have to be a complete ...

With the advent of Spring, developers now have, for the first time, a truly lightweight alternative to EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans). Using Spring, you can take advantage of many of the features offered ...

The purpose of this blog entry is to show an extremely simple of example of “logging” entry into and exit from methods using the Spring Framework and AspectJ. The example is so simple that I won’t ...

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The Spring team at Pivotal has announced the 1.0 release of its Spring Boot rapid application development framework. The "convention-over-configuration centric framework" launched April 1, and was ...

Software toolmaker JetBrains and the Spring Team at VMware have announced a strategic collaboration to enhance support for the Kotlin programming language in Spring-based backend development. The ...