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 3 provides the ability to use a Java based configuration file, as opposed to using those monolithic XML configuration files that everyone hates. However, it doesn't have to be a complete ...

Enterprise developers use Spring technologies and concepts like inversion of control (IOC), aspect-oriented programming (AOP), and dependency injection to implement business and application logic ...

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 ...