Spring in action - Configuration styles

[Jurica Krizanic]

Hello,
I have read the 2nd edition of Spring in action, and I must congratulate to Craig on a great book.

I have a question regarding configuration styles.
Which configuration style would you recommend?

I am using XML style in the most of cases, but I see that annotation based configuration is widely used.
In which situation to use the XML style, and in which situation use the annotation based style?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards!

[Radovan Vukovic]

Hi,

I am not sure that this is answer on your question but check this recored webinar on spring source

[Jurica Krizanic]

Thanks Radovan,
I will take a look of that webinar.

[Craig Walls]

I'm not sure I can tell you which style I recommend. The fact is, I don't mind XML configuration. But I also really like the @Component and @Autowired annotations (or @Named and @Inject if you like the JSR-330 style). And I have a fondness for the Java-based configuration and have used it sometimes.

The nice thing is that Spring won't force you in any specific direction here. You're free to choose which style best fits your needs and preference. In fact, you're free to mix-n-match styles within an app.

[Jurica Krizanic]

OK Craig,
thanks for the answer.

It is good to have many options available.