Morris "Mojo" Jones

Notes from a session at TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009

Rod addressed some emerging best practices based around annotation-based application configuration using Spring 2.5 and later.

The emerging best practice is to use the @Autowired annotation rather than @Resource. He demonstrated how to disambiguate bean references with @Qualifier. He also showed how to create your own custom [...]

Notes from TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009

At a keynote talk, you expect sweeping generalizations and “big picture” insights.

Rod pointed out some things that I have watched happening over the past two decades, namely the rise and fall of complex monolithic software systems as an expensive luxury that falls in favor of simplicity along with economic [...]