Spring

Spring 2.5 Architecture Diagrams

I have updated the architecture diagrams for the just-released Spring 2.5. Any new or changed packages are highlighted (since 2.0.6). The diagrams are also online – if you pointed your IDE plugin at these after my previous entry, you will … Read More

Spring Framework 2.1 M3 Architecture

Here are some architecture diagrams for Spring Framework 2.1 M3 (released yesterday). You can point the (free) structure101 plug-in at these and get IDE warnings if your customizations break Jeurgen’s architecture. Here is the top level breakout of org.springframework: Structure101 … Read More

Code Organization Guidelines for Large Code Bases

In an excellent on-line presentation Juergen Hoeller gives rationale and guidelines for controlling the structure of large, evolving code-bases. Juergen is the chief architect of the Spring framework, which as I have previously pointed out is structurally almost perfect. This … Read More