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 ...

If you’ve had your ear to the ground recently, you’ve likely been hearing a lot about service-oriented application development with OSGi and Spring Dynamic Modules. In this second article in the Hello ...

In my last article, I detailed a high-level comparison of two dependency injection frameworks: Guice and Spring. As I mentioned then, although they both fully embrace the principles of DI, they have ...

The purpose of this blog entry is to show an extremely simple of example of “logging” entry into and exit from methods using the Spring Framework and AspectJ. The example is so simple that I won’t ...