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 ...

Custom annotations are finally live within Google Search Console’s performance reports. You can now annotate reports directly within Search Console to avoid forgetting important key events; such as ...

Google launched custom annotations in Search Console performance reports, giving you a way to add contextual notes directly to traffic data charts. The feature lets you mark specific dates with notes ...

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 ...

Reading has always been a solitary pursuit for many, but a new and exciting trend is taking over the bookish world. Book annotation with friends is more than just making notes in the margins—it’s ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Eclipse based STS IDE isn’t a requirement for Spring Boot development, but it is highly ...

Microsoft's dev team put AI to work to explain different kinds of expressions in the latest update to Java tooling for Visual Studio Code. Microsoft stewards the development of Java tooling for its ...

The rise of artificial intelligence in recent years has been a non-stop gala for programmers, and one programming language—Python—has been the undeniable belle of the ball. Java and other languages ...

Before Spring introduced custom annotations, developers had to manage configurations like email validation using XML configuration files. The XML configuration would define beans, validators, and ...

HTMX is a newer technology that takes plain old HTML and gives it extra powers like Ajax and DOM swaps. It’s included in my personal list of good ideas because it eliminates a whole realm of ...