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 Java ...

Spring profiles let developers configure their applications to behave differently in various environments. Most Spring profile configurations occur in the application.properties (or YAML) file.

Before digging into the code, however, a quick word about Spring XML: with the advent of Spring JavaConfig and annotation-driven configuration, Spring made the attempt to move away from XML and ...

Enhanced Spring Annotations: Improved support for various Spring annotations like @ContextConfiguration, @ConditionalOnResource, @Named, @Inject, and @Resource with features like auto-completion, ...