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 ...

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Most enterprise applications rely on the database as the persistence mechanism. Integration tests for these applications require data in the database to run correctly. For integration tests to be ...

Who says adopting Seam means giving up Spring? In this first installment in a three-part series, Dan Allen shows you how to build hybrid components that benefit from both Seam and Spring container ...