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Spring 4 Meta Annotations

The Spring Framework started adding annotations to Spring development with version 2.  Each release has added more annotations.  Annotations provide a powerful means to define and wire your beans, configure cross cutting concerns (like transactions) and much more. ...

Spring 4 – Conditional Bean Configuration

Spring 4 – Conditional Bean Configuration As part of my series on the new features in Spring Framework, version 4, I’d like to present how to use the new Condition interface and @Conditional annotation.  Spring 4 was released in GA in 2013.  Yet you may be...

Spring 4 Ordering Autowired Collections

Spring 4 offers an array of new features.  As with all releases, some of the new features are big and impactful.  Others are tiny but helpful. Autowiring Collections One of the new small features in Spring 4 is the ability to use @Order with autowiring.  There has...