XML and JSON are important to me, and I’m grateful to Apress for letting me write an entire book about them. In this article I will briefly introduce the second edition of my new book ...

As technologies have matured and APIs for Java and other languages have taken more of the burden of low-level coding off your hands (JMS, EJB, and XML are just a few recent examples), business ...

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 ...