Using J(2)EE application server has been a norm when high-end features like transactions, security, availability, and scalability are mandatory. There are very few options for java applications, which ...

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 ...

Spring AI 2.0 brings the Java AI framework to a new baseline built for Spring Boot 4.x and Spring Framework 7. The release improves agentic app development with unified tool calling, progressive tool ...

In 1996, Sun Microsystems introduced its JavaBeans application programming interface for writing a Java component. Continuing with its coffee analogy, Sun called that component a bean. It also ...

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 ...