Create the Spring XML configuration file for associating the bean created in step #1 with a Spring application context. ... package examples.springhttp; import java.util.Map; ...

Spring's application.properties file. To demonstrate how the application.properties Spring configuration file works with the Spring @ConfigurationProperties annotation, we fill the file with a variety ...

My sense is that many new Spring applications employ a hybrid approach, using a combination of XML and Java. This is underscored by Spring's bean documentation whose examples remain largely in XML, ...