Novice programmers rarely see the value in externalized configuration. It's tedious and doesn't result in an immediate payoff. That means this task is often overlooked or done poorly, if at all. For ...

In the creatively named blog entry The JMX Model MBean, I demonstrated with a simple example how the JMX Model MBean enables greater descriptive ability than is available with other JMX MBean types.

Spring is perhaps the best of the component-based frameworks that emerged at the turn of the 21st century. It vastly improves the way that developers write and deliver infrastructure code in ...