Java annotations were designed for metadata. Spring uses them for dependency injection. Lombok uses them for code generation. JPA uses them for ORM mapping. We use them to write entire programs. This ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Spring ApplicationContext provides developers direct access to the Spring framework’s ...

Abstract: Java provides two different options for processing source code annotations. One of them is the annotation processing API used in compile time, and the other is the Reflection API used in ...

Blazingly intelligent and dynamic dependency injection framework built on google guice inspired by netflix governator providing lifecycle management and other fancy stuff we miss in guice.