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 ...

Before you begin deploying applications based on the .NET framework, you need to decide how your organisation will manage common application settings. To promote code reuse and application ...

Spring 3 provides the ability to use a Java based configuration file, as opposed to using those monolithic XML configuration files that everyone hates. However, it doesn't have to be a complete ...

Developing easily configurable software is of paramount importance in today’s business environment. Software applications are no longer judged simply by the amount of business logic that they ...

OK, I've been in a serious argument with our VP of Development for the last two weeks on this issue.<BR><BR>We have a series of applications, some standalone, some Windows services, running on ...

The Apache Jakarta site is home to many well-known Java open source projects, including Tomcat, Ant, and log4j. A lesser-known subproject of Jakarta is Jakarta Commons, a repository of reusable Java ...

Before you begin deploying applications based on the .NET framework, you need to decide how your organization will manage common application settings. To promote code reuse and application ...

One of our lead developers recently shared a list of some of the most helpful, free Visual Studio add-ins, and we thought you might find it useful. They are as follows (in no particular order) : This ...

Microsoft recently added an improvement to its Office Customization Tool for Office 365 users that lets IT pros save configuration files in Microsoft's datacenters (the "cloud") for later use, ...