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 ...

Catch up to Spring, with this hands-on introduction to Spring’s custom namespaces, which make it easier than ever to build and deploy custom components in your Spring 2.x environment. Spring is an ...

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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 ...

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 ...