Alef Arendsen in this post explains the various ways you can create objects using the Spring ‘s ApplicationContext. He also explains in detail the FactoryBean interface and how it can be used to implement factories that can be embedded in the ApplicationContext XML configuration.
The Spring Framework has recently released a preview of a new subproject called Spring Web Flow (SWF). SWF is a component that sits on top of existing web frameworks to allow the explicit creation page flows. TSS has a nice introductory article about this new subproject. In the past months I worked for a project [...]
This is very good news!!!! Highlights of this release include: JMX support Hibernate 3 support Java 5 annotations for transactions and JMX Shorter xml bean definitions Finer grained distribution jar files Read the announcement at spring’s site or at theserverside Just in time for me since I am about to move my personal development projects [...]