October 2009
Java development 2.0: Easy EC2
Provisioning an EC2 instance for hosting a Java Web application is a snap. In this Java development 2.0 column, you'll quickly build a Web application that leverages Groovy, Spring, and Hibernate (via the Grails framework) and deploy it on an EC2 instance.
January 2009
On the fly beans to Spring apps with Groovy
Probably the most interesting and powerful feature of Spring's dynamic-language support is the ability to monitor and detect changes to dynamic-language scripts while your application is running and automatically reload the changed beans in the Spring application context. This article shows you how to add bean refresh to your Spring applications and explores how it works. The complete source code is available.
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