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 ...

Every deployable J2EE component must be specifically configured on the application server to function. For WebLogic Server, developers generally complete this configuration manually by using the ...

This is an obvious point, but there are still many legacy applications that have not moved to an environment that supports annotations. If you are looking at supporting older applications, you simply ...

Sometimes it seems you spend more time manipulating XML files than you do writing Java code, so it makes sense to have one or two XML wranglers in your toolbox. In this article, Laurent Bovet gets you ...