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 ...

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 ...

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Spring MVC is the Spring framework’s traditional library for building Java web applications. It is one of the most popular web frameworks for building fully functional Java web applications and ...

In the creatively named blog entry The JMX Model MBean, I demonstrated with a simple example how the JMX Model MBean enables greater descriptive ability than is available with other JMX MBean types.