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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Spring ApplicationContext provides developers direct access to the Spring framework’s ...

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In this article, I introduce the new features in Spring 2.5 by showing you how to use Spring’s custom namespaces and flexible component model to create and deploy a custom component in a Spring ...

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 ...