Before you begin deploying applications based on the .NET framework, you need to decide how your organisation will manage common application settings. To promote code reuse and application ...

This is an obvious point, but there are still many legacy applications that have not moved to an environment that supports annotations. If you are looking at supporting older applications, you simply ...

Spring 3 provides the ability to use a Java based configuration file, as opposed to using those monolithic XML configuration files that everyone hates. However, it doesn't have to be a complete ...

Ondrej Balas continues his series on refactoring code for dependency injection, looking at patterns and strategies for changing application behavior after it has already been compiled. So far in this ...

The Apache Jakarta site is home to many well-known Java open source projects, including Tomcat, Ant, and log4j. A lesser-known subproject of Jakarta is Jakarta Commons, a repository of reusable Java ...

Sometimes it seems you spend more time manipulating XML files than you do writing Java code, so it makes sense to have one or two XML wranglers in your toolbox. In this article, Laurent Bovet gets you ...

If Microsoft 365 deployment tool is not working properly, and you see We couldn't find the specified configuration file, ...

Microsoft recently added an improvement to its Office Customization Tool for Office 365 users that lets IT pros save configuration files in Microsoft's datacenters (the "cloud") for later use, ...