The introduction of Spring annotations such as @Bean and @Component, which greatly simplify how to provision and autowire Spring managed beans, triggered a mass exodus from XML-based Spring ...

Spring 3 provides the ability to use a Java based configuration file, as opposed to using those monolithic XML configuration files that everyone hates. However, it doesn't have to be a complete ...

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I am using this blog entry to demonstrate by simple example the use of the Spring Framework‘s HTTP Remoting. There are numerous online resources on this subject, so my intention here is to provide an ...