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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve had your ear to the ground recently, you’ve likely been hearing a lot about service-oriented application development with OSGi and Spring Dynamic Modules. In this second article in the Hello ...

JBoss Seam is an intriguing framework that unifies JSF, EJB 3, JPA, and JAAS under an accessible component-based model. But adopting Seam doesn’t mean that you have to lose the advantages of other ...

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 ...