Locale aware caching 
				

				
	January 29, 2009 |
	by Geoff 


                                

					To help boost the performance of our webapps we like to implement caching. One nice feature of the Spring Framework is its support for AOP features within applications. We utilise this to implement AOP method caching within our Spring enabled web applications. This allows us to write code without needing to worry too much about [...]

					
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					Using Spring themes to override resource bundle messages 
				

				
	October 17, 2008 |
	by Geoff 


                                

					We use Spring quite a bit. In one project we use Spring MVC (I won’t get into a rant about whether that’s a good thing or not) and rightly or wrongly we use Spring themes within our UI. Yes I know JSP based UIs are so last century but sometimes if the shoe fits …
One [...]

					
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					Webapp Configuration – the Spring Way 
				

				
	November 8, 2007 |
	by Geoff 


                                

					Most Java applications will need some context specific configuration when deploying to a certain environment. This configuration could be username, password and JDBC URL for a specific database configuration or the details of an SMTP server for java mail deployments amongst others.
There are many ways to to provide runtime configurations for Java applications. For web [...]

					
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