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What in the world are Spring beans?

September 15, 2022 by Tarik

The Spring core technologies reference documentation describes what beans are. Per the Introduction to the Spring IoC Container and Beans section (where “IoC” means “inversion of control”): In Spring, the objects that form the backbone of your application and that are managed by the Spring IoC container are called beans. A bean is an object … Read more

Posting a File and Associated Data to a RESTful WebService preferably as JSON

September 6, 2022 by Tarik

I asked a similar question here: How do I upload a file with metadata using a REST web service? You basically have three choices: Base64 encode the file, at the expense of increasing the data size by around 33%, and add processing overhead in both the server and the client for encoding/decoding. Send the file … Read more