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Daily del.icio.us for May 4th through May 7th
- People Over Process » A Roadmap for JavaFX - Adobe’s Beat Them By a Week, But So What? - JavaOne 2008 - The fact that Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, and others are all racing towards the same end should be encouraging, not frustrating. Getting preempted by a week with, basically, the same sort of announcement is meaningless in the grand scheme of things
- JavaFX’s day in the Sun | The Universal Desktop | ZDNet.com - JavaFX has a LONG way to go especially when you look at Adobe’s RIA strengths and Microsoft’s very enthusiastic entry into the space. But I think JavaFX will be a breath of fresh air for people and will help in expanding the RIA footprint further
- Java platform to get modularity, OSGi support | InfoWorld | News | 2008-05-07 | By Paul Krill - Upcoming versions of the Java platform will be fitted with capabilities such as flexibility, OSGi support, and modularity, Sun Microsystems officials said Tuesday afternoon at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.
- Dell Expands Virtualization Offerings - Dell is adding to its virtualization portfolio by embedding Citrix XenServer into its hardware and expanding its services for customers investing in the technology.
- Andy Kessler: WSJ: The War for the Web - The continuing battle between Microsoft and Google will mean fierce competition – adding features, building data centers, cutting deals and spending money on speed and customer convenience
- Archiva - The Build Artifact Repository Manager - Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software that helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact repository. It is the perfect companion for build tools such as Maven, Continuum, and ANT.
- JavaOne 2008: Day One (So Far) - JavaOne 2008 Day One has started, of course, and it's an interesting show, with a lot of undercurrents about JavaFX (as expected) and multimedia - and mobile applications. There's a lot more, of course, and this thread is meant for people to add comments
- The day the music died [dive into mark] - This is a letter I sent to my father to explain what it means that Microsoft is pulling support for MSN Music. Tech issues like this often bubble up into the media that he reads, but they are rarely explained well. My father assumes I have an opinion on s
- Amazon Now Serving OpenSolaris on EC2 - GigaOM - Sun’s OpenSolaris OS will be available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers for free. It is in beta for now. Sun will provide premium technical support for MySQL database running on Linux and Amazon EC2.
- Julien Lecomte’s Blog » JavaScript: The Good Parts - In JavaScript: The Good Parts, Douglas extensively describes that good subset of the JavaScript language, occasionally warning to avoid the bad. I consider Douglas’ book a must-buy for anybody who’s serious about developing professional apps for the w
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Daily del.icio.us for April 20th through April 22nd
- InfoQ: Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications - In this post, Adobe’s James Ward teams up with InfoQ.com to bring you another Flex Top 10 (our most recent Flex Top 10). Flex is an open source application development framework for building rich Internet applications that run in the web with Flash Play
- InfoQ: IntelliJ IDEA Supports Flex Development - JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA is one of Java developers' the most favorite development IDEs. The recent IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3 release includes some new features supports Flex application development. To understand how Flex RIA developers can utilize InitelliJ's
- IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » Type Renderers - I’d like to tell you about one of the IntelliJ IDEA features - type renderers. They provide you the ability to customize how objects are displayed in the debugger, offering “logic-oriented” presentation of data vs. structure-oriented as it is by def
- Cloud Security: Where is Your Computer Today? - A new blog that launched last week–Cloud Security–is devoted to looking at the security issues of cloud computing, which encompasses grid computing, utility computing, software as a service, storage in the cloud, and virtualization
- Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today. - Key in your Amazon ID and password and behold: a data center's worth of computing power carved into megabyte-sized chunks and wired straight to your desktop. Clones of that HP tower cost 10 cents per hour — 10 cents!
- Why 'no Macs' is no longer a defensible IT strategy | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-04-21 | By Galen Gruman - According to NPD Research, Apple's share of the retail market has climbed to 14 percent as of February 2008. Gartner and IDC report that the Mac's share in the U.S. as of March 31 was 6.6 percent.
- The Norway Vote - What really happened « Topic Maps and All That - The process which led to Norway’s Yes vote on OOXML was so surrealistic that it deserves to be recorded for posterity. Here’s my version of the story.
- For AT&T, U-Verse Is Picking Up Steam - GigaOM - UBS’s John Hodulik, one of the best telecom analysts, has pegged AT&T as his top pick for this earnings seasons and is expecting some good tidings from Ma Bell. What caught my eye in his note was the progress made by AT&T’s IPTV effort, U-Verse.
- Virtualization: VMware, Xen, or VirtualBox? (by Jeremy Zawodny) - I wish to virtualize my computer life. However, I face an abundance of choices from which you will help me select the right one. What are the pros and cons here? And are there other solutions worthy of consideration?
- /var/log/mind » Blog Archive » Turbocharge your string keyed hashmaps - In most most situations the possible universe of keys in the hashmap are known upfront either when writing the code or when starting up the application. If instead of creating hard coded strings or by using various string key parameters from say an XML fi
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Daily del.icio.us for Oct 16, 2007 through Oct 20, 2007
- InfoQ: Setting out for Service Component Architecture - SCA is an enhancement to frameworks that offer programming models for components and connectivity abstractions. Those frameworks may be standard offerings, but may also be proprietary technologies, such Remote Function Calls (RFC), SQL stored proc etc.
- Ignite Realtime: Ignite Realtime Video Podcasts: Actionscript, Javascript, and the Future of Webapps - In this video, Jive Software's David Smith talks about Actionscript, Javascript, and the future of webapps as they relate to his work on Spark.
- Eric Traut talks (and demos) Windows 7 and MinWin - istartedsomething - Microsoft?s distinguished engineer Eric Traut gave a presentation at the University of Illinois about Microsoft?s virtualization technology and also mentioned Windows 7 - the next version of Windows after Vista
- Cairngorm:Cairngorm2.2.1:Release Notes - Adobe Labs - The Cairngorm Microarchitecture is a lightweight yet prescriptive framework for rich Internet application (RIA) development.
- Alfresco Makes Leading Java Implementation JLAN Shared File Drive Interface Available via GPL - Alfresco JLAN is a unique implementation of an embedded virtual file system that offers the only Java client and server implementation of Microsoft Window?s CIFS protocol, allowing content, and rows in a database to appear as a shared drive.
- 1-800-GOOG-411 - Google's new 411 service is free, fast and easy to use. Give it a try now and see how simple it is to find and connect with local businesses for fre
- Adopting Struts 2.0 - Java World - Struts 2.0 carries much of the power of its predecessor but is simpler for developers to use. In this article, S. Sangeetha and S. V. Subrahmanya outline the changes in Struts 2.0 and offer migration pointers for developers familiar with Struts
- Improve Your Photos 60 Seconds at a Time - If you are tired of reading long explanations and confused by tricky photo techniques, here you can have it short and sweet. Arranged by topics, each subject takes less than 60 seconds to read.
- InfoQ: IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 Adds Spring/Hibernate Support, Eclipse Interoperability, and Maven Integration - Jetbrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 7.0. This version rounds out support for many popular Java technologies while adding support for languages such as Groovy and Ruby. Among its highlights: Spring and Hibernate Support, Ruby/Rails Support, Groovy/Grails
- IntelliJ IDEA Blog » Blog Archive » IntelliJ IDEA: The Magnificent Seven - JetBrains is proud and happy to tell you that IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 is now available! This release is focused on further upgrading performance, usability, and enhancing the user experience with the efficient support for new features, technologies, and tools.
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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 03, 2007 through Sep 09, 2007
- InfoQ: Spring 2 and Beyond - Spring 2.0 takes POJO-based development to a new level of sophistication. The themes of Spring 2.0 are simplicity and power: it makes existing tasks even easier, while extending the power of Spring to new areas. In this session,
- craiger's .plan : A case for iBatis - iBatis on the other hand is the working man?s ORM. In fact, I think I like it because I (and probably you) have created something similar back in the day before all these formalized ORMs. It simply and elegantly maps your sql results to an object of you
- Universal Map Implementation - I worked late this long week-end to improve the implementation of Javolution high-performance FastMap . But finally, I believe that I got it! The "Swiss Knife/Universal /Holy Grail" map for developers! But judge for yourself
- And The Fastest Growing Web Framework Is… - As Matt Raible points out, you can significantly change the results of this graph by changing the search terms . For example "Spring" and "Struts" show that Spring is apparently leading all versions of Struts.
- Virtual Iron goes 4.0 - Virtual Iron has been chipping away at the lower end of the virtualization market for two years now, steadily adding features in a bid to appeal to those businesses for whom VMware's enterprise offerings are too pricey and feature-laden
- BeauScott.com » Blog Archive » Ted Patrick?s FXWidget - Beau Scott posted his version of FXWidget that uses the AJAX Prototype framework and an AJAX call to cache the SWF file
- Ted On Flex: FXWidget part 2 - the goal of FXWidget is to keep everything self contained and reduce adding an element of Flex on any webpage by adding a simple DIV.
- Emerging Architect Roles - Stephan Schwab - What is exactly software architecture? Do we really need it? Why have we only recently been discussing it? Is there suddenly a contagious fever about software architecture infecting those who claim to be architects? Who are they actually:
- WebLogic Event Server Administration with wlshell - This tutorial shows how to perform BEA WebLogic Event Server (WLEvS) administration with wlshell. WLEvS exposes management operations through a standard JMX interface, including dynamic configuration of Event Processing Language (EPL)
- prefuse | interactive information visualization toolkit - Prefuse supports a rich set of features for data modeling, visualization, and interaction. It provides optimized data structures for tables, graphs, and trees, a host of layout and visual encoding techniques, and support for animation,
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Daily del.icio.us for Aug 16, 2007 through Aug 21, 2007
- Struts2 Tutorials - Several tutorials are available to help you get started with the framework, from all-purpose "soup to nuts" tutorials to specialty tutorials on portlets and database access.
- GnilronEye 1.1, system monitoring solution, released - GnilronEye 1.1, a java-based system monitoring solution, is now available for download. GnilronEye 1.1 introduces an advanced http-monitoring feature and a new report feature that include sgraphs of the monitored items.
- A CSS styled table version 2 | Veerle's blog - In 2005 I wrote an article about styling a table with CSS. After receiving so many requests I finally decided to give in and write another tutorial.
- Scrollovers - A New Way of Linking - Scrollovers are a way to quickly and easily add flair to your web pages, giving your users an experience they weren't expecting.
- Death by numbers - Los Angeles Times - We're obssessed with plane crashes and bridge collapses, yet we pay little attention to the stuff that kills the rest of us.
- Sun set on server business? | Open Source | ZDNet.com - In all the hullaballoo over Sun?s agreement to support Solaris 10 on IBM hardware I have yet to read one obvious fact. This is part of Sun?s exit strategy from the server business.
- Ajaxian » YUI Compressor: The latest minification tool - The YUI Compressor is a new JavaScript minifier. Its level of compaction is higher than the Dojo compressor, and it is as safe as JSMin. Tests on the YUI library have shown savings of about 18% compared to JSMin and 10% compared to the Dojo compressor
- Tutorials - Using Java Persistence API Within a Visual Web Application - Using NetBeans IDE 6.0 and the Visual Web tools, you can write applications that connect to database tables using the Java Persistence API (JPA) in addition to the Visual Web data provider components.
- Enterprise Java Community: Manage test data for integration tests using Spring and DBunit - This article will look at configuring integration tests using Spring and DBUnit so that test data is inserted into the database before every test. This article also looks at a utility to export/import test data in the database using DBunit.
- How to Get the Best Performance Out of a Java Persistence Implementation : Enterprise Tech Tips - If you are switching over to the Java Persistence API, be aware of the numerous options and decisions you have to make to boost your application's performance. From Cache size, Pools to modes of operation, Rahul Biswas takes you through the steps. (via Th
- Prototype JavaScript framework: Prototype 1.6.0 release candidate - The first release candidate of Prototype 1.6.0 has arrived! The core team is continuing its tradition of bringing thoughtful incremental upgrades to the core APIs in addition to performance improvements and bug fixes. Keep reading for some of the highligh
- Citrix makes bold virtualization move with XenSource acquisition, muddies waters with Microsoft | Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com - Citrix Systems Inc. today roared full throttle into the ever-expanding desktop virtualization arena, when it announced its intention to acquire XenSource, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif. The news comes right on the heels of VMWare?s huge IPO pop.
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Daily del.icio.us for Aug 11, 2007 through Aug 16, 2007
- Tutorials - Using Java Persistence API Within a Visual Web Application - Using NetBeans IDE 6.0 and the Visual Web tools, you can write applications that connect to database tables using the Java Persistence API (JPA) in addition to the Visual Web data provider components.
- Enterprise Java Community: Manage test data for integration tests using Spring and DBunit - This article will look at configuring integration tests using Spring and DBUnit so that test data is inserted into the database before every test. This article also looks at a utility to export/import test data in the database using DBunit.
- How to Get the Best Performance Out of a Java Persistence Implementation : Enterprise Tech Tips - If you are switching over to the Java Persistence API, be aware of the numerous options and decisions you have to make to boost your application's performance. From Cache size, Pools to modes of operation, Rahul Biswas takes you through the steps. (via Th
- Prototype JavaScript framework: Prototype 1.6.0 release candidate - The first release candidate of Prototype 1.6.0 has arrived! The core team is continuing its tradition of bringing thoughtful incremental upgrades to the core APIs in addition to performance improvements and bug fixes. Keep reading for some of the highligh
- Citrix makes bold virtualization move with XenSource acquisition, muddies waters with Microsoft | Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com - Citrix Systems Inc. today roared full throttle into the ever-expanding desktop virtualization arena, when it announced its intention to acquire XenSource, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif. The news comes right on the heels of VMWare?s huge IPO pop.
- 30 free HTML email templates - Campaign Monitor - Getting your email to look great in all the major email clients can be a challenge at times, so we've done the hard work for you with these 30 free email templates.
- WebAppers Simple Javascript Progress Bar with CSS by WebAppers - WebAppers has created a simple Ajax Javascript based Percentage Bar / Progress Bar which is inspired by Bare Naked App. Bare Naked App taught us how to display Percentage Bar with 2 images only by using CSS.
- Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive - The Tech Report - Page 1 - Has Hitachi achieved a perfect balance of speed and storage with its Deskstar 7K1000? We've tested it against nearly 20 competitors?including its closest 750GB rivals from Seagate and Western Digital?to find out
- Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Java Library for Amazon E-Commerce Service - Java Library for Amazon E-Commerce Service
- LiMo Foundation: Welcome - Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone established the LiMo Foundation to develop the Foundation Platform, a Linux-based, open mobile communication device software platform
- Erlang, the next Java - Erlang is going to be a very important language. It could be the next Java. Its main problem is that there is no big company behind it
- Judge Says Unix Copyrights Rightfully Belong to Novell - New York Times - In a decision that may finally settle one of the most bitter legal battles surrounding software widely used in corporate data centers, a federal judge ruled Friday afternoon that Novell, and not SCO, is the rightful owner of the copyrights for Unix OS.
- NIST endorses Microsoft's Open XML in upcoming vote | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is backing Microsoft's effort to certify Office Open XML as an international standard.
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Daily del.icio.us for Aug 09, 2007 through Aug 11, 2007
- LiMo Foundation: Welcome - Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone established the LiMo Foundation to develop the Foundation Platform, a Linux-based, open mobile communication device software platform
- Erlang, the next Java - Erlang is going to be a very important language. It could be the next Java. Its main problem is that there is no big company behind it
- Judge Says Unix Copyrights Rightfully Belong to Novell - New York Times - In a decision that may finally settle one of the most bitter legal battles surrounding software widely used in corporate data centers, a federal judge ruled Friday afternoon that Novell, and not SCO, is the rightful owner of the copyrights for Unix OS.
- NIST endorses Microsoft's Open XML in upcoming vote | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is backing Microsoft's effort to certify Office Open XML as an international standard.
- How well do you know prototype? - Here, I've collected most common use cases that do NOT use all of prototype's capabilities and their simple solutions. I hope this will be a basic checklist to go through when developing for your next project
- Learning JavaFX Script, Part 1: An Introduction to JavaFX Script for Java Programmers - The JavaFX Script programming language (hereinafter referred to as JavaFX) is a declarative, statically typed scripting language from Sun. Because JavaFX Script is statically typed, it also has the same code structuring, reuse, and encapsulation features
- Real Web 2.0: Quick and dirty Web applications with bookmarklets - Bookmarklets are an important part of the Web 2.0 landscape, and they exemplify the qualities of Web 2.0 technology I tend to focus on in this column: transparency and openness.
- WebLogic Server Virtual Edition Launcher Appliance - WLS-VE is a combination of a Java application server (WebLogic Server) with a Java Virtual Machine that works with hypervisor software and provides only the set of operating system features that WebLogic Server needs to offer its full range of services.
- Arvind Jain's Blog: WebLogic Server Virtual Edition (WLS-VE) goes GA - With a single command, WLS instances can quickly be deployed onto VMware ESX-enabled resource pools, fully integrated and tuned to run within their own dedicated virtual machines… all without any 3rd party operating systems.
- yav - Javascript form validation tool - Yav is a SIMPLE, POWERFUL and CUSTOMIZABLE javascript-based form validation tool.
- New elements in HTML 5 - HTML 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. New structural elements include aside, figure, and section. New inline elements include time, meter, and progress. New embedding elements include video and audio.
- Download Query Express - Query Express is a simple Query Analyzer look-alike, but being small and free it can be run where the SQL Server client tools are not installed or licensed. This makes it especially useful as a query tool for MSDE and SQL Express. It also connects to Orac
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Daily del.icio.us for May 28, 2007 through May 29, 2007
- InfoQ: Presentation: Using Google GWT - At JavaZone, GWT lead Bruce Johnson intro'd GWT including high-performance AJAX, internationalization, and integration with existing web apps. The presentor Bruce Johnson is works at Google as Tech Lead of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
- LINA - open source everywhere - With LINA, a single executable written and compiled for Linux can be run with native look and feel on Windows, Mac OS X, and UNIX operating systems.
- JSF Central - Your JavaServer Faces Community - JBoss: The JavaServer Faces Powerhouse? - JBoss has proven itself a force in the J2EE application server market. Now, with Seam and the acquisition of some exciting new products, JBoss is jockeying for control of the JavaServer Faces market.
- Slashdot | 8 Reasons Not To Use MySQL (And 5 To Adopt It) - CIO.com asked two open-source experts to enumerate the reasons to choose MySQL and to pick something else. Tina Gasperson takes the 5 reasons to use MySQL side, and Brent Toderash discusses 8 reasons not to.
- dev2dev: Effective Java Exceptions - Although the Java exception model has generated spirited discussion during its lifetime, it provides excellent value when it is applied correctly. Using the Java exception model properly will keep your application simple, maintainable, and correct.
- Neal Gafter's blog: Removing Language Features? - I believe Java could be simplified by treating all exception types as unchecked without breaking existing code. This could also result in a simplification of future language extensions and APIs. But would the language be better off w/o checked exceptions?
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Daily del.icio.us for Apr 13, 2007 through Apr 17, 2007
- The 90th percentile: MyFaces: The emperor has no clothes - My last project is going into production in a couple of weeks, and it has been implemented using JSF. I started with JSF in good faith: it should be stable by now, it is blessed by Sun and included as the de facto web framework in JEE 5.
- James Ward's Blog » Blog Archive » My Recent Flex & Apollo Adventures - A while back Bruce Eckel and I recorded a screencast of us building a Flex application with Hibernate and XFire on the backend. I finally got around to packaging the code for that demo. You can get it from SourceForge.
- rakaz - Make your pages load faster by combining and compressing javascript and css files - Thanks to a small PHP script and some clever URL rewriting I now have an easy to maintain method to speed up the loading of pages that use many or large css and javascript files.
- Vitamin Features » Serving JavaScript Fast - The next generation of web apps make heavy use of JavaScript and CSS. We?ll show you how to make those apps responsive and quick.
- lightWindow - Another decent lightbox Javascript library (via Ajaxian) - After researching every single modal window, lightbox, slimbox, etc out there nothing fit the bill. Granted some of them were very nice but only fit a specific purpose
- Dynamic languages: More than just a quick fix | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2007-04-16 | By Andrew Binstock - IT's rise to prominence as a core competence that delivers competitive advantage has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in the number of software development projects it must complete
- Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Rails Developer David Heinemeier Hansson?s Response to Alex Payne?s Interview [dive into mark] - LAUGH OUT LOUD funny take from Mark Pilgrim, John Gruber style.
- Wordpress Performance: Why My Site Is So Much Faster Than Yours by Elliott Back - There?s no good reason for Wordpress or your site to be slow, except your own negligence. Cache everything. Monitor performance
- Tim Sneath : Introducing Microsoft Silverlight - Silverlight (previously codenamed "WPF/E") is a lightweight subset of XAML for building rich media experiences on the web.
- Java Community News - BEA Releases JRockit R27.2 with Java 6 Support - BEA's latest JVM release, JRockit R27.2, is the first implementation of the Java 6 VM. In addition to providing full Java 6 support, the latest JRockit VM includes many-fold performance improvements, especially for applications with short-lived objects.
- Enomalism : XEN Virtualized Server Management Console: Amazon EC2 Migration - The Enomalism Elastic migration module is a migration tool kit for the management and migration of virtual images between your local xen based enomalism environment and the remote Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Environment.
- Everybody Hates Don Imus - Frank Rich's brilliant column - Even in that short span, there?s been an astounding display of hypocrisy, sanctimony and self-congratulation from nearly every side of the debate
- Dev2Dev Online: Open Source and BEA - BEA believes in open source. We believe a blended strategy for application development and deployment?combining the best of open source and commercial software?provides important freedom and flexibility not available through all-or-nothing approaches
- Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Web Worker Emergency Survival Kit « - Over the years, I?ve accumulated a variety of tools that don?t take up much space but that come in handy when an emergency comes along. On the average day, I don?t need any of these - but when I do, I?m happy to have them. Here are my suggestions
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Daily del.icio.us for Mar 28, 2007 through Mar 29, 2007
- Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Mounting Amazon S3 as a File System in Amazon EC2 - This tutorial discusses how to mount Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as a file system in an Amazon EC2 instance
- TFO eServices Java Programming - JXPath Tutorial - JXPath is an Apache Commons library to query Java object trees using the well known XPath XML query language. Extremely useful stuff but not yet very well known, hence this tutorial.
- Techworld.com - VMware enters the Linux kernel - The next revision of the Linux kernel is to include a virtualisation feature developed by VMware, called VMI.
- Java object queries using JXPath - Java World - JXPath is such an object-query tool. It is an Apache Commons component that enables you to query complex object trees using the well-known XPath expression language.
- Spring-Loaded - Guice vs. Spring JavaConfig: A comparison of DI styles - With all of the excitement surrounding Guice lately, I thought it might be worthwhile to compare Guice with Spring JavaConfig. Both represent different approaches to annotation-based dependency-injection
