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29 December 2012

In this tutorial you will learn how to implement JDBC transactions using the Spring framework.

In this tutorial we will explore one of the most powerful Spring features: The transaction management. At the end of this tutorial we will have used the JDBC Transaction Manager in a declarative way s... Read more

Spring dependency injection with XML example

26 December 2012

In this tutorial you will learn how to configure Spring dependency injection using the Spring XML configuration file.

Spring dependency injection can be configured by using annotations directly in your Java classes. Another available alternative is to specify it in the Spring XML configuration file as we will see in ... Read more

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How to connect to an Android server socket in the emulator

22 December 2012

In this tutorial you will learn how to connect to a server socket that is running in the Android emulator.

This tutorial will not focus on how to create Android activities or applications from scratch. It will assume that you already have a basic understanding about Android application development and will... Read more

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Spring dependency injection example

19 December 2012

In this tutorial you will learn how to use Spring dependency injection (or inversion of control) feature.

This tutorial considers the following software and environment: Ubuntu 12.04 Maven 3.0.4 JDK 1.7.0.09 Spring 3.2.0 Configure Maven to get the required Spring dependencies: Maven pom.xml file refe... Read more

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Spring bean scopes

15 December 2012

In this tutorial you will learn about Spring bean scopes and how to use them.

When you define a Spring bean you are actually defining it within a scope. The following five scopes are provided by Spring out-of-the-box: Scope Description singleton When a bean is defined wi... Read more

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First Spring application example

15 December 2012

This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a hello world Spring application.

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How to create a multiple module project using Maven

11 December 2012

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a multiple module project using Maven, more precisely a web application project (WAR) referencing another project as a library (JAR).

This tutorial considers the following software and environment: Ubuntu 12.04 Maven 3.0.4 Eclipse Juno (for additional tutorial steps) Read more

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How to add dependencies to a Maven project

08 December 2012

In this tutorial you will learn how to include references to external libraries (dependencies) into a Maven project.

This tutorial considers the following software and environment: Ubuntu 12.04 Maven 3.0.4 Eclipse Juno (for additional tutorial steps) Read more

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About the author

Gonçalo Marques is a Software Engineer with several years of experience in software development and architecture definition. During this period his main focus was delivering software solutions in banking, telecommunications and governmental areas. He created the Bytes Lounge website with one ultimate goal: share his knowledge with the software development community. His main area of expertise is Java and open source.

GitHub profile: https://github.com/gonmarques

He is also the author of the WiFi File Browser Android application: