Important enterprises currently have in their information systems many heterogeneous applications that must be integrated into newly developed applications. Some of these applications are developed on ...

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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 ...

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 ...