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 ...

Developers like to code. They declare variables, write methods and integrate classes together. What developers aren't big on is configuration. It's a hassle to configure an application so that it can ...

Catch up to Spring, with this hands-on introduction to Spring’s custom namespaces, which make it easier than ever to build and deploy custom components in your Spring 2.x environment. Spring is an ...