Developing easily configurable software is of paramount importance in today’s business environment. Software applications are no longer judged simply by the amount of business logic that they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Microsoft's Visual Studio Code team for Java development added a new Coding Pack for Java installer and detailed best practices for setting up a development environment. Support for Java in Visual ...

Overview: Cloud-native and microservices architectures are becoming even more central to modern applications, with Java and ...

Java is one of the most important languages for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), and Microsoft's latest update to its open-source cross-platform editor are designed to "make the product friendlier" to ...

I have found the tools and utilities that come with the Sun-provided Java SDK (especially the monitoring and management tools) to be very useful in daily Java development. I have previously blogged on ...