Nicholas Hagen

Two of the libraries I’m most interested in lately are Grails and CDI/JSR299 (Weld being the implementation). The problem is that the two are really not compatible directly with each other. First, CDI is a JavaEE6 technology requiring a compliant container (ie: Glassfishv3) whereas Grails can run in any servlet container (plain ol’ WAR). Second, [...]

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 [...]