Spring is great for creating flexible applications by assembling loosely coupled components using XML. Here’s a simple Spring configuration file:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd"> <bean id="hello" class="example.HelloWorldBean" /> </beans>
Except that now you have to go back to your context assisted IDE and write some Java to launch it!
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