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 ...

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 ...

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 ...