The first in a series of articles exploring what's new in Spring 2.5: annotation support for dependency injection, auto-detection of Spring components on the classpath and lifecycle methods.

The latest Spring really embraces annotations, however. "In Spring 2.5, we've extended annotation support to provide comprehensive support for dependency injection," Johnson said. Dependency injection ...

This article introduces Spring and its core programming philosophy and methodology: Inversion of control and dependency injection. You’ll also get started with Spring annotations and a couple of ...

Spring profiles let developers configure their applications to behave differently in various environments. Most Spring profile configurations occur in the application.properties (or YAML) file.