Spring 2.5 rolled out a comprehensive set of annotations that can be used for auto-discovery of Spring-managed objects, dependency injection, lifecycle methods, Web layer configuration, and testing.

A recent post to the Wicket mailing list details some reasons to choose Wicket over Spring MVC or JSF. Wicket is a component based web application framework.

Spring Converters and Formatters Spring 3.0 introduces a simple Converter interface that you can implement and reuse anywhere in Spring. You can use them in Spring MVC to convert request String values ...