Spring is perhaps the best of the component-based frameworks that emerged at the turn of the 21st century. It vastly improves the way that developers write and deliver infrastructure code in ...

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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 ...

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Any web based application can be built on the concept of a multi-tier, MVC model. For better maintainability, applications should be designed in such a way that the Presentation Layer and the Business ...