Dependency injection is an advanced topic. The term was coined by Martin Fowler in 2004 to describe the new, novel and almost magical way that inversion of control containers initialized the ...

The Spring Framework is possibly the most iconic software development framework of all time. It once suffered from a reputation of bloat, but it has long since shed that perception. The heart of ...

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 ...

This series of articles introduces Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI), a key part of the Java EE 6 platform. Standardized via JSR 299, CDI is the de-facto API for comprehensive ...