One of the things I really like about Spring 2.5 is the new set of annotations for defining controllers. Now you don’t have to extend any superclass to turn your class into a controller, just add the @Controller annotation on the top of the class definition and that’s it, you got one (still have to [...]

Paul Hammant has just announced the PicoContainer 2.0 beta release. I’m particularly happy with the news, because I thought they had stopped to work on this project and I’ve always preferred this dependency injection container, its configuration is quite simple. So now it’s time to check it out!