News

Nov 6, 2008: JavaConfig 1.0.0.M4 has been released. Read the official announcement.

Sept 6, 2008: JavaConfig's own PetClinic sample application is now available.

Sept 1, 2008: JavaConfig now has a dedicated forum!

May 28, 2008: The location of JavaConfig's downloads and Subversion repository have changed, and are no longer hosted at SourceForge. See below for new download links, Subversion and Maven information

Introduction

The Spring Java Configuration project (JavaConfig for short) provides a type-safe, pure-Java option for configuring the Spring IoC container. While XML is a widely-used configuration approach, Spring's versatility and metadata-based internal handling of bean definitions means alternatives to XML config are easy to implement.

Requirements

• Java 5.0 (or greater)
• Spring Framework, version 2.5.6 (or greater)
• CGLIB, version 2.1.3 (or greater)

Downloads

• Download Latest Milestone (1.0.0.M4)
• Download Nightly Build (1.0.0.M5)

Documentation

• Reference Documentation PDF | HTML
• API Documentation
• Changelog

Sample Applications

• PetClinic and other Sample Applications

SpringSource Blog Entries on JavaConfig

• A Java Configuration Option for Spring
• More on Java Configuration
• Spring Java Configuration Moving Ahead
• Spring Java Configuration - What's new in M3

Community News on JavaConfig

• Guice and JavaConfig: Two Approaches to IoC through Annotations [InfoQ, 2007-03]
• Spring Scores w/ JavaConfig [David Black, 2007-03]
• Guice vs. Spring JavaConfig [Craig Walls, 2007-03]
• @Bean vs @Inject [Rick Hightower, 2007-11]
• Spring: Prototype scope, Lookup Methods and Java Config [Solomon Duskis, 2008-02]
• Spring XML Hell? Escape XML Hell [Rick Hightower on Javalobby, 2008-02]
• Spring Framework's JavaConfig [Erik Weibust, 2008-04]