Author Archive for Chris Beams

Building Spring 3

Posted on March 3rd, 2009 by Chris Beams in 3.0, Builds, Open Source, Spring, Spring Events.

Introduction
As Juergen announced last week, Spring 3.0 Milestone 2 is now available. In this post, I'll show you in six steps how to download and build the latest Spring 3 sources and get a development environment up and running in Eclipse.
We'll wrap up by discussing the best ways to follow Spring 3 development, how [...]

Spring Java Configuration - What's New in M3

Posted on March 26th, 2008 by Chris Beams in Containers, IOC Container, Java, Spring.

Today marks the third milestone release of the Spring Java Configuration project (JavaConfig for short). The release contains numerous bug fixes and new features - I'll highlight a few of the most interesting changes below, but first let me give a quick refresher as to what JavaConfig is all about.
If you have any experience [...]