Technical Article

Spring Components - XML configuration on steroids describes the new customizable XML namespaces available for bean definitions in Spring 2.0, including the process for creating your own custom namespace handler.

In his article Steven Devijver talks about the continuing effect the EJB specifications have on application design, even when the Spring Framework is used. He gives some advice and reading recommendations to help you and your designs break free.

This article by Adrian Colyer is the first of a two part guide to using an aspect library built with AspectJ.

The concrete example in this article demonstrates use of an aspect to enable dependency injection of domain objects based on the presence of the @Configurable annotation, which ships with Spring 2.0.  Load-time weaving (LTW) is shown in an Eclipse and IntelliJ environment, along with the generic flags suitable for any environment.

Christian Dupuis shows another approach to injecting EJB3 Session Beans via Spring 2.0.

In High Performance Message Processing with BMT Message-Driven Beans and Spring, Dmitri Maximovich and Eugene Kuleshov describe in detail how to use Spring and EJB's Message Driven Beans (MDBs) for high performance asynchronous processing of messages.

In JavaEE 5, Spring 2 and AspectJ 5: dependecy injection magics, Maurizio Albari first shows an approach to binding Spring-manged objects to JNDI so they may then be injected into EJB 3.0 EJBs in standard fashion for EJB 3, by the EJB container. Then he shows an example of using the @Configurable("TestEJB") annotation directly in the EJB to have it directly dependency injected by Spring + AspectJ.

Adrian Colyer has written a comprehensive blog entry on Typed Advice in Spring 2.0 (M2). This is a detailed look at how some of the new AOP functionality in Spring 2.0 looks, including the use of the new XML Schema based <aop:xxx> tags to apply typed AOP advice, using pointcuts defined only in XML or also based on Annotations in the target code. There is also a look at the creation of Aspects using the @AspectJ style (basically using aspect Annotations in regular java code, instead of using the AspectJ language.

Eugene Kuleshov's Using the Spring AOP Framework with EJB Components is a very comprehensive article on using Spring AOP in a J2EE+EJB environment.

Thierry Templier has written a blog entry about usage of Jencks JCA container. Read the blog here.

Oracle Technology Network has published an article by Dustin Marx titled Add Some Spring to Your Oracle JDBC Access.  The article discusses Oracle database-access using Spring's JDBC layer.  It shows how this will make your JDBC code cleaner, less error-prone, and more flexible.