Month: December 2009

Suppose you are asked to develop your sequence generator application using database sequences, and store the prefix and suffix […]

By default, Spring treats every element in a collection as a string. You have to specify the data type […]

List, Set, and Map are the core interfaces representing three main types of collections. For each collection type, Java […]

Spring allows you to extract the common bean configurations to form a parent bean. The beans that inherit from […]

The Spring IoC container can help you to wire your beans automatically. You only have to specify the auto-wiring […]

Spring’s dependency checking feature can only check for all properties of certain types. It’s not flexible enough to check […]

Spring’s dependency checking feature can help you to check if all properties of certain types have been set on […]

Whenever a bean instance is used for one particular property only, it can be declared as an inner bean. […]

Bean references can also be applied to constructor injection. For example, you can add a constructor that accepts a […]

The bean name in the <ref> element’s bean attribute can be a reference to any bean in the IoC […]