Nicholas Hagen

One of the areas I have dug into lately is around code generation and class file manipulation. It’s actually quite amazing how much you learn and understand when you begin to understand what the JVM is doing and how class files are constructed. Even though on a day-by-day basis, class generation is rarely used, it [...]

Spring is often times considered a web application library similar to the EJB 3.x stack.  However, Spring is so much more and can live in standalone applications as well.  Today I am going to touch on using Spring in standalone applications to handle dependency or configuration management.  I do not mean configuration management in the [...]