Understanding Spring Framework Hierarchical Context

Not many people are familiar with the support that Spring framework has for hierarchical context. The question is why do we need such feature. This feature is useful in the scenario where your product has multiple web applications and all of them depend on a common framework or library. Instead of deploy [...]

How Does Spring Bean Container Dispose Your Beans?

Spring bean container provides a powerful and flexible way to manage Spring bean’s lifecycle. If a Spring bean needs to clean itself up when Spring bean container is gracefully shutting down, it has several ways of specifying that intent. The intrusive and not recommended way is to implement the DisposableBean interface. A [...]

Web Application Security

I’ve been poking around to learn about web application security framework and frankly I am kind of disappointed. Comparing with the number of open source frameworks for other aspsects of web application i.e MVC, testing, O/R, there aren’t that many security framework. Here is a list of what I have found so far.

Acegi [...]