The introduction of Spring annotations such as @Bean and @Component, which greatly simplify how to provision and autowire Spring managed beans, triggered a mass exodus from XML-based Spring ...

Extensible Markup Language, or XML, is a language used to define the rules for the format in which documents are encoded. This format is readable by both humans and machines. However, XML files often ...

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