Archive for April, 2005

Decision to use Ivy is a no-brainer

Posted on April 29th, 2005 in General. 8 comments.

Now that Ivy 1.0 is out, I’d strongly encourage every Java developer to pull it down and consider using it to manage dependencies in their Ant builds. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a complete no-brainer.
Ivy does one thing, manage dependencies, and does it quite well. What’s nice is that it has a decent set […]

New Spring ‘alias’ tag helps achieve lightweight component oriented assembly of applications

Posted on April 9th, 2005 in General, Spring. 5 comments.

The new alias tag in Spring’s XML bean definition format makes using Spring in a (lightweight) component oriented fashion significantly easier.
Spring has always had the ability to assign multiple IDs to components (via combined usage of the id and name attributes) which made it possible to link up components somewhat. Consider a library called ComponentA. […]