When you get ready to deploy an application into production, the usual thought is: what’s the easiest way to meet all the application requirements? In this case, we have three components that need to ...

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 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 ...

The Java Development Kit. A build tool, such as Maven or Gradle. An IDE that simplifies software development. You could spend a morning installing all these tools and ...