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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 ...

Object-oriented systems are usually partitioned into layers of related responsibilities and only dependencies in one direction are allowed, from higher layers (more specific, less reusable) to lower ...

Open-source and Java components used in applications remain a weak spot for the enterprise, according to a new analysis. Java applications in particular are posing a challenge, with 97 percent of ...

Java has endured radical transformations in the technology landscape and many threats to its prominence. What makes this technology so great, and what does the future hold for Java?

David Chappell has just posted a good primer explaining exactly what Service Component Architecture (SCA) is and why we should care about it. In the paper, David explores the properties of components, ...