The insurgence of Spring Boot as the go-to framework for microservices development has spawned renewed interest in the fundamentals of the Spring framework. Folks are particularly interested in the ...

In my last article, I detailed a high-level comparison of two dependency injection frameworks: Guice and Spring. As I mentioned then, although they both fully embrace the principles of DI, they have ...

According to IoC, an application must be developed as a set of simple JavaBeans (or plain-old Java objects—POJOs), with a a lightweight IoC container wiring them together and setting the dependencies.