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 Integration is an API from the creators of the Spring Framework that's geared towards Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). When it comes to integration, there is no shortage of “solutions” ...

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 ...