Spring makes test driven J2EE application development a reality by offering Java EE developers an easy and powerful framework to write and run both unit and integration tests outside the container.

The Spring framework itself is compiled using the Java 8 compiler with the command line option to produce Java 6 byte code. Therefore you can compile and run Spring 4.x applications with Java 6, 7 ...

This article will look at configuring integration tests using Spring and DBUnit so that test data is inserted into the database before every test. This article also looks at a utility to export/import ...

A recent Spring Framework User Survey of Java developers found that Spring/Spring Boot users rate their code higher in quality, maintainability and test coverage that non-Spring users.

Spring WebFlux is one of the most popular frameworks for reactive programming in Java. Here's a hands-on look at using WebFlux with Reactor.

The popularity of Spring Boot has renewed interest in core Spring concepts, such as the meaning of inversion of control and the application of dependency injection. Here, we explore the concept of ...

Microsoft announced Spring Boot improvements in the latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code tooling. That tooling comes in the Spring Boot Extension Pack in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace, ...

Spring’s ambitious new enterprise AI framework provides a familiar entry point for Java developers getting started with generative AI. It also leverages Java’s strengths as a time-tested ...