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 ...

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This series of articles introduces Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI), a key part of the Java EE 6 platform. Standardized via JSR 299, CDI is the de-facto API for comprehensive ...

David Chappell has just posted a good primer explaining exactly what Service Component Architecture (SCA) is and why we should care about it. In the paper, David explores the properties of components, ...

Many of us are familiar with how to find version information in Windows-like applications. At startup, we’re often greeted with a splash screen that identifies the vendor, the product name, and ...

Java and JavaScript are the most popular programming languages by most metrics, in no small part because they're widely taught and allow for rapid and stable development. But JavaScript and Java ...