This is an obvious point, but there are still many legacy applications that have not moved to an environment that supports annotations. If you are looking at supporting older applications, you simply ...

With JavaServer Faces 2.0, we finally see the introduction of a standard, annotation based approach to component development. No longer do your JSF applications need to maintain a long and arduous ...

Enterprise open source software provider SpringSource (formerly known as Interface21) has released Spring Framework 2.5, the latest upgrade to its Java/J2EE application framework. The upgrade adds ...

TestNG, written by Cedric Beust and Alexandru Popescu, is a light framework based on Java annotations (for J2SE 5.0) that allows you to design complex unit testing for J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 1.4. Why ...

Java champion Adam Bien argues that EJB 3's streamlined component model and persistence handling are worth a second look. Learn the difference of convention over configuration, annotations, dependency ...