Category Archives: Spring

A Conventionally Annotated Configuration – Spring, Hibernate, Eclipse

I’m starting on a personal project and decided I was going to take the time to do things right.  This means different things to different folks, but to me it basically entails: Using the latest and greatest versions of everything.  Eclipse 3.4.  Hibernate 3.3.1.  Spring 2.5.6.  Tomcat 6.  Maven 2.0.9.  Java 6 ( 7? ), [...]

Using Patterns to Suppliment your Spring Configuration

Your Spring configuration probably consists of one or more well know XML files which are loaded by name. Have you ever wanted to override something without having to touch your base configuration? Here’s what we do. After we load our base configuration we use a pattern to load any XML files which exist in a [...]