The Spring framework emerged as a de-facto standard in 2003 and has been helping people build bigger, better applications with cleaner code ever since. In this post, we will discuss the options available to you for configuring an application using the Spring component model. We will grow a simple application from the simplest form and rework it to take advantage of some of the many simplifying features in the Spring framework that have made it, and continue to make it, the de-facto standard for applications today.

The modern day enterprise Java application has many collaborating objects that…

There are many ways to skin a cat. Many applications today rely on messaging (AMQP, JMS) to bridge the gap between disparate systems and data. Others rely on RPC (typically web-services, or REST). For a great many applications, however, file transfer is very much a way of life! There are several common ways of supporting it, but three of the most common are using a shared mount or folder, using a FTP server, and - for more secure exchanges - using SSH (or SFTP). While it's common knowledge that Spring has always provided first-class support for messaging (JMS, AMQP) and RPC (there are far too…