The first in a series of articles exploring what's new in Spring 2.5: annotation support for dependency injection, auto-detection of Spring components on the classpath and lifecycle methods.

The current article will focus on simplified configuration and new annotation-based functionality in the core of the Spring application context.

The latest Spring really embraces annotations, however. "In Spring 2.5, we've extended annotation support to provide comprehensive support for dependency injection," Johnson said. Dependency injection ...

This article introduces Spring and its core programming philosophy and methodology: Inversion of control and dependency injection. You’ll also get started with Spring annotations and a couple of ...