The introduction of Spring annotations such as @Bean and @Component, which greatly simplify how to provision and autowire Spring managed beans, triggered a mass exodus from XML-based 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 ...

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 ...