Monthly Archives: March 2011

Spring’s classpath scanning support can be leveraged to easily implement an application that supports plugins to be added. One method would be to simply scan a specific package (for example org.example.myapp.plugin for beans annotated with @Component, and add them to … Continue reading →

Spring has been supporting annotation-based context configuration for some years now. Time to explore it if you haven’t already done so! A quick overview is available here. Getting rid of your XML configuration is as easy as: If you need … Continue reading →