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 ...

However, annotation-based Spring configuration has its drawbacks, especially as applications scale. A codebase with Java annotations scattered across hundreds of classes can quickly become difficult ...

The latest version of Spring Batch framework supports job partitioning, remote chunking and annotation based configuration. Spring Batch development team recently released version 2.0 of the batch fra ...

The current article will focus on simplified configuration and new annotation-based functionality in the core of the Spring application context.