Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key difference between the Spring @Bean and @Component annotations is that the @Bean ...

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 ...

Who says adopting Seam means giving up Spring? In this first installment in a three-part series, Dan Allen shows you how to build hybrid components that benefit from both Seam and Spring container ...

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 ...