If you want Spring to manage a JavaBean whose code you don’t control, you create a method that returns an instance of the JavaBean in question and then decorate that method with a @Component ...

Before there was EJB 3.0 and the annotation based approach to SOAP web services creation, there were Eclipse tools and Apache Axis web services frameworks that made it possible to take a bottom-up ...

Let’s use the simpler bean type, JavaBean, for our project, which will adequately demonstrate the points made here. Later you may apply these techniques to EJB components as well.

You can create or find JavaBean instances with <jsp:useBean>, and then you can get and set their properties with <jsp:getProperty> and <jsp:setProperty>. With JSP 2.0, you may also get the value ...