The insurgence of Spring Boot as the go-to framework for microservices development has spawned renewed interest in the fundamentals of the Spring framework. Folks are particularly interested in the ...

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The job of the Spring IoC container is to keep your business logic clean by managing the lifecycle and configuration of objects that would otherwise make things messy. But the Spring container doesn't ...

Almost from its inception, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE is Sun’s new name for J2EE) has been criticized for being too complex. One of the main problems is that developers must face 100 ...