Combining Annotation and XML Configurations in your Spring 3 Applications Who says you need to choose between XML and annotation based configurations. Why not use both! It's as easy as a little import ...

However, annotation-based Spring configuration has its drawbacks, especially as applications scale. A codebase with Java annotations scattered across hundreds of classes can quickly become difficult ...

Spring is perhaps the best of the component-based frameworks that emerged at the turn of the 21st century. It vastly improves the way that developers write and deliver infrastructure code in Java ...