This is an often-asked question on the Internet — and one which, previously, had no good answer. Now, thanks to @Jianrong Chen, we have a one-liner configuration to do it!
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Explicit vs Implicit configuration in Spring
With the move to annotations for use of Spring, many projects have become based on component-scanning, auto-wiring and property-placeholder injection — an ‘implicit’ approach to configuration.
However, it can still be very useful to specify ‘explicit’ configuration. This gives us control of top-level application config & enables extensible configuration using the Strategy pattern.
Gaining control of configuration is crucial to enable per-customer/ per-application customization. Continue reading
@ModelAttribute interdependency in Spring MVC
Rossen Stoyanchev at Spring Framework is finally ready to tackle the thorny issue of @ModelAttribute inter-dependency.
The new annotation-based handlers allow easy definition of simple controllers, but when combined with JDK 7’s unpredictable ordering of reflected methods, problems could occur..