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 Boot is a brand new framework from the team at Pivotal, designed to simplify the bootstrapping and development of a new Spring application. The framework takes an opinionated approach to ...

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 ...