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Spring 3.1 Caching and @Cacheable
Caches have been around in the software world for long time. They’re one of those really useful things that once you start using them you wonder how on earth you got along without ...

Spring Profiles and Java Configuration
My last blog introduced Spring 3.1’s profiles and explained both the business case for using them and demonstrated their use with Spring XML configuration files. ...

Spring Profiles in XML Config Files
My last blog was very simple as it covered my painless upgrade from Spring 3.0.x to Spring 3.1.x and I finished by mentioning that you can upgrade your Spring schemas to 3.1 to allow ...

Getting Started with Spring Social – Part 2
A few weeks ago I wrote a post demonstrating what I thought was the simplest application you could write using Spring Social. This application read and displayed a Twitter user’s ...

Approaches to XML – Part 2 – What about SAX?
Part 1 introduced the idea that there are different ways to approach XML parsing and highlighted the point that XML is NOT A STRING; rather it’s an object oriented document model ...

Approaches to XML – Part 3 – JAXB
If you remember from Part 1 and Part 2, I’m covering different approaches to parsing XML messages using the outrageously corny scenario of Pete’s Perfect ...

Approaches to XML – Part 4 – XMLBeans
If you remember from Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, I’m covering different approaches to parsing XML messages using the outrageously corny scenario of Pete’s Perfect ...

Approaches to XML – Part 1 – XML is not a String…
XML has been around a long time: from memory, I’d guess that it’s about 12-14 years old by now; it’s a mature product with, in computing terms, a long history. So, is there anything ...

OAuth 2.0 Webapp Flow Overview
In my last few blogs I’ve been talking about accessing Software as a Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter using Spring Social. Some of you may have noticed that ...

Getting Started with Spring Social
Like me, you will not have failed to notice the current rush to ‘socialize’ applications, whether it’s adding a simple Facebook ‘Like’ button, a whole bunch of ‘share’ ...


