My name is Paul Fisher, and I am a co-author on SourceBeat's soon-to-be-published book: Spring Persistence 101. Solomon Duskis and I are writing this book together and we are both getting quite excited in anticipation of the upcoming publish date of this book!... more »

Why should you learn about Spring and POJO Persistence? Well, as a start, take a look at this insightful graph from the job aggregator Indeed. It shows that if your interested in enterprise development, you're better off learning Spring and... more »

The Hibernate team never liked Spring's HibernateTemplate. In one of the latest TheServerSide Spring free-for-alls, Gavin King pointed out:... more »

I started this blog on February 17, 2004 and started writing Spring Live a couple months later. In an interview on TSS, I admitted I didn't know anything about Spring when I started writing the book. Based on the book's Amazon ranking, that didn't prevent it from being a good book. It turned into a result of my thoughts and experiences while learning the Spring Framework from 2004 to 2006. During that time, I made more than 10 updates.... more »

Albert Einstein once said, "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Indeed, the pursuit of scientific truth has been all about simplifying a theory's underlying assumptions so that we can deal with the issues that really matter. ... more »

Specifically I'm looking at the multiple ways in which you can use spring-managed beans from webwork actions. The best document I could find on it is here, which got me started but also left me a little confused.... more »

Today, the Principle of Inversion of Control has gained much popularity and Spring is a Light-Weight Framework that adopts this principle extensively for Building Java or J2ee Applications. In most of the times an Application never wants to gain access to all the services provided by the heavy-weight J2ee Container, but still will use it.... more »

The Spring MVC provides rich functionality for building robust Web Applications and it is available as a separate module in the Distribution. As a pre-requisite, readers are advised to go through the introductory article on Spring Framework http://spring.javabeat.net/articles/2007/06/introduction-spring-web-framework. The Spring MVC Framework is architected and designed in such a way that every piece of logic and functionality is highly configurable.... more »

One of the major features available in the Spring Distribution is the provision for separating the cross-cutting concerns in an Application through the means of Aspect Oriented Programming. Aspect Oriented Programming is sensibly new and it is not a replacement for Object Oriented Programming. In fact, AOP is another way of organizing your Program Structure.... more »