Operation friendly Spring application runtime configuration

Most applications need some kind of runtime configuration like e.g. database connection settings. These seetings are usually provided as program arguments or system properties. The following post will show a proper way to include runtime configuration support in a modern Spring application to make it is easy to handle the application by the operation team.

Interesting Software News (in my view)

The technologie and tool stack I work with was heavily updated in 2013. This post is a quick overview of the most important technologies (primarily Java) and tools (primarily IDE) changes that happend this year.

Beside these there are some interesting announcements that I like to share and I also want to mention some smaller tools that I use more or less often and that also might be useful for someone else.