January 2013

One of the things that Spring 2.5 introduced back in 2007 was component scanning, a feature which removed the need for XML bean configuration and instead allowed developers to declare their beans using Java annotations. Rather than this: We can do this: It’s a pretty simple idea since Java makes it very easy to introspectively check a class’s annotations at runtime through its reflection API. Spring’s component scan feature also allows you to specify the base package(s) to scan for beans. ...

Here’s a dose of shameless self-promotion. It’s coming up on a year since I started development on Infinitum, and I’m targeting its first full release on its birthday, February 11. Shortly before I moved the project to GitHub, they deprecated the downloads service, so I needed to fine a home for distributing the binaries as well as the Javadoc. GitHub offers its pages service, but I figured I’d just host it myself. I threw together a website in a couple days and the result is www.infinitumframework.com. This website will be used to host the latest (and previous) releases of the framework, its documentation, and, in the future, announcements and updates for it. ...

Shortly after switching to GitHub, I decided to relicense Infinitum from GNU LGPL to Apache License 2.0. There aren’t really any implications except one: replacing the license and copyright header in every source file. I’m far from being a Unix expert (more like amateur at best), but I figured sed would be the quickest and easiest way to do this. Sed is a Unix utility for processing text streams, and it allows you to replace string patterns in files. A simple string replacement using sed is quite easy: ...