Java annotations were designed for metadata. Spring uses them for dependency injection. Lombok uses them for code generation. JPA uses them for ORM mapping. We use them to write entire programs. This ...
I recently upgraded my project to Spring Boot 3.5.0, which required removing graphql-java-kickstart and migrating to Spring GraphQL. The existing GraphQL schema is quite complex, so manually defining ...
Embabel, an open source framework for authoring AI agentic flows on the JVM, has been launched by Spring Framework founder Rod Johnson. Johnson aims for Embabel to become the natural way to integrate ...
The introduction of Spring annotations such as @Bean and @Component, which greatly simplify how to provision and autowire Spring managed beans, triggered a mass exodus from XML-based Spring ...
Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Spring ApplicationContext provides developers direct access to the Spring framework’s ...
Abstract: Java provides two different options for processing source code annotations. One of them is the annotation processing API used in compile time, and the other is the Reflection API used in ...
Microsoft's dev team put AI to work to explain different kinds of expressions in the latest update to Java tooling for Visual Studio Code. Microsoft stewards the development of Java tooling for its ...