The insurgence of Spring Boot as the go-to framework for microservices development has spawned renewed interest in the fundamentals of the Spring framework. Folks are particularly interested in the ...

Custom namespaces and Spring’s flexible component model Spring 2.0 introduced the ability to define custom XML namespaces. Similar to Java packages, custom namespaces make it possible to define ...

The first decision to kick off a greenfield Java project usually sounds breezy: "Let's start with Spring Boot, it's everywhere." A few days in, someone mutters that Quarkus boots faster and saves ...

Datamill, an open source framework that leverages Java 8 and lambdas, is bringing functional programming to Java-based web development. Positioned as an alternative to the popular Spring Framework, ...