The insurgence of Spring Boot as the go-to framework for microservices development has spawned renewed interest in the fundamentals of the Spring framework. Folks are particularly interested in the ...

In my last article, I detailed a high-level comparison of two dependency injection frameworks: Guice and Spring. As I mentioned then, although they both fully embrace the principles of DI, they have ...

Spring is itself an example of the use of IoC. Also note that Ant seems conformant with this IoC container since it too is XML/JavaBeans-based and, in some ways, already uses IoC. Requirements Our Ant ...