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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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Spring ApplicationContext provides developers direct access to the Spring framework’s ...

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 ...

Most sequence annotation efforts have been focused on information about chromosomal location, open reading frames, putative function and associated regulatory sequences. Here, I argue that adopting an ...

Spring 2.5 introduced a flexible component model that allows the use of annotations to configure components. Developers using the Spring 2.5 component model can enable any Spring-managed object as a ...